Comment on: Systemic lupus erythematosus patients exhibit functional deficiencies of endothelial progenitor cells

Rheumatology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 453-

  Westerweel, Peter E ^a   Derksen, Ronald H W M ^a   Verhaar, Marianne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD133 ANTIGEN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CD34 SELECTION; CELL CULTURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL MATURATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; IMMUNOMODULATION; CELL COUNT; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CELL COUNT; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEM CELLS;

EID: 63249121648     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ken494     Document Type: Note

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