Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs)
Endothelial progenitor cells: a new player in lupus?
... Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) represent a hetero- geneous group of cells that are released from the bone marrow into the circulation and are thought to contribute to vascular ...
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Treatment of diabetes mellitus-induced erectile dysfunction using endothelial progenitor cells genetically modified with human telomerase reverse transcriptase
... used endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) overexpressing human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) for the treatment of ...Rat EPCs were transfected with hTERT (EPCs-hTERT). ...
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Impairment of circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in patients with glucocorticoid-induced avascular necrosis of the femoral head and changes of EPCs after glucocorticoid treatment in vitro
... the endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) was first reported by Asahara and colleagues ...described EPCs as a group of circulating cells which promoted angiogenesis and maintained vascular ...of ...
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The change and effect of endothelial progenitor cells in pig with multiple organ dysfunction syndromes
... that EPCs would decrease to a nadir 6 hours after infusion of sepsis and would return to val- ues comparable with baseline 24 hours after lipopolysaccha- ride of coli bacillus challenge [10], and conceived that ...
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Original Article Endothelial progenitor cells transplantation ameliorates atherosclerosis through transfection of vitamin D in ApoE mice
... that endothelial cells status was important to atherosclero- sis ...in endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) during therapy of ...Methods: EPCs were separated from bone ...
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Reduced Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Children With Hemodialysis but Not Predialysis Chronic Kidney Disease
... In adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD), reduced levels of vasculo- protective endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) may contribute to their increased risk of cardiovascular disease. ...
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Endothelial progenitor cells in ischemic stroke: an exploration from hypothesis to therapy
... of EPCs involves the expression of L- selectin, an adhesion receptor on EPCs, and its ligand in ischemic ...on EPCs via activating antibodies enhances the homing and neovascularization of EPCs ...
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Impact of ADMA, endothelial progenitor cells and traditional cardiovascular risk factors on pulse wave velocity among prediabetic individuals
... EPCs: Endothelial Progenitor Cells; ADMA: Asymmetric Dimethyl-L-Arginine; DDAH: Dimethylarginine Dimethylaminohydrolase; IFG: Impaired Fasting Glucose; IGT: Impaired Glucose Tolerance; FPG: ...
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The possible role of ribosomal protein S6 kinase 4 in the senescence of endothelial progenitor cells in diabetes mellitus
... normal EPCs underwent senescent- like growth arrest via the classical p53-dependent senes- cence ...HG-induced EPCs senescence ...late EPCs, which were modulated by NO-related rather than oxidative ...
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Obesity suppresses circulating level and function of endothelial progenitor cells and heart function
... of EPCs (C-kit/CD31, Sca-1/KDR, CXCR4/CD34) was significantly lower in group 1 than in group 2 ...marrow-derived EPCs was remarkably impaired in group 1 compared to that in group 2 (all ...
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R2* and R2 mapping for quantifying recruitment of superparamagnetic iron oxide-tagged endothelial progenitor cells to injured liver: tracking in vitro and in vivo
... the cells accumulate where they are needed due to cell migration and ...of EPCs after liver injury significantly increased the number of EPCs in the liver, which was in accordance with previous ...
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Endothelial progenitor cells improve the therapeutic effect of mesenchymal stem cell sheets on irradiated bone defect repair in a rat model
... and EPCs have been previously reported ...mononuclear cells were ...streptomycin. Cells of the third passage were tested for osteogenic, adipogenic and chondrogenic differentiation and cell surface ...
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Angiogenic potential of endothelial progenitor cells and embryonic stem cells
... of EPCs during ...the endothelial cells ...that EPCs in the BM respond by following chemokine gradients, resulting in their homing to sites of hypoxia where they can partici- pate in ...
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Levels and values of circulating endothelial progenitor cells, soluble angiogenic factors, and mononuclear cell apoptosis in liver cirrhosis patients
... of EPCs (Table ...circulating EPCs in cirrhotic liver using a rat model of HCC ...circulating EPCs up to 4 weeks after the onset of liver disease, fol- lowed by a gradual drop to less than the ...
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Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors as stimulants of angiogenesis in cardiovascular disease and diabetes
... human endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) which showed that impaired tube formation and cell proliferation induced by inactivation of COX-1 were rescued by treatment with a PPAR-β / δ ...into ...
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Clinical trials for stem cell therapies
... Endothelial progenitor cells (CD34+/CD133+/KDR+ or VEGFRII+) may be sourced from several sources inclu- ding bone marrow, umbilical cord blood and adipose ...of endothelial progenitor ...
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Severe endothelial injury and subsequent repair in patients after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation
... of endothelial microparticles (EMPs) in states of disturbed endothelial ...from cells upon activation or during ...tal cells in amounts and phenotypes ...modulate endothelial func- ...
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Effects of age on noninvasive assessments of vascular function in nonhuman primates: implications for translational drug discovery
... of endothelial progenitor cells (CD45-CD31 + CD34 + VEGFR2+ ...in endothelial microparticles (CD45-CD42a-CD54+ ...and EPCs did not correlate with age. Endothelial function ...
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Traditional Chinese Medicine and regulatory roles on epithelial–mesenchymal transitions
... marrow‑derived cells; CTC : circulating tumor cells; CSF1: colony stimulating factor 1; COX2: cyclooxygenase2; EPCs: endothelial progenitor cells; EGF: epidermal growth factor; ...
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Original Article The value of tumor angiogenesis activity for stratification of HCC patients
... of EPCs in HCC neovas- cularization [11, 13, 36]. EPCs constitute a rel- atively small, re-aching less than 3%, subpopu- lation of hematopoietic CD45+ stem cells and a larger,amounting to 35%, ...
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