Role of circulating vascular progenitors in angiogenesis, vascular healing, and pulmonary hypertension: Lessons from animal models

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1008-1014

  Sata, Masataka ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cancer; Progenitor; Regeneration; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CANCER; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; RETINOPATHY; SHORT SURVEY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE REPAIR; ANIMAL; BONE MARROW CELL; CYTOLOGY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BONE MARROW CELLS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; REGENERATION;

EID: 33646461869     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000206123.94140.f3     Document Type: Short Survey

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