Cardiogenic potential of endothelial progenitor cells

Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 341-348

  Murasawa, Satoshi ^a   Asahara, Takayuki ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac Regeneration; CD34+cell; Endothelial Progenitor Cell (EPC) Transplantation, Vascular Regeneration; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRIC OXIDE; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; TROPONIN I; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAPILLARY FLOW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL REGENERATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE TRANSFER; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEG ISCHEMIA; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REGENERATION;

EID: 68749113092     PISSN: 17539447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753944708096283     Document Type: Review

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