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Angiology
Endothelial cell progenitors display differential healing activities
May 15th, 2006
According to recent research from the United States, endothelial cell progenitors CD34+ and CD14+ display differential healing activities. "Peripheral blood contains primitive (stem cell-like) and monocytic-like endothelial cell progenitors. Diabetes apparently converts these primitive progenitors, from a pro-angiogenic to anti-angiogenic phenotype," wrote O. Awad and colleagues, University of Iowa. "Monocytic progenitors seem to be less affected by diabetes, but potential pro-angiogenic activities of freshly isolated monocytic progenitors remain unexplored." They explained, "We compared the ability of primitive and monocytic endothelial cell...
Source: Obesity & Diabetes Week (2006-05-15)
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