Endothelial progenitor cells: Neovascularization or more?

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-8

  Kajstura, Jan ^a   Leri, Annarosa ^a   Bolli, Roberto ^b   Anversa, Piero ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fusion; Endothelial progenitor cells; Transdifferentiation

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; F ACTIN;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANGIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CLONOGENESIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LACTOSE OPERON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MYOCARDIAL HIBERNATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEART; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; REGENERATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 29444440838     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2005.08.007     Document Type: Editorial

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