A novel mechanism for endothelial progenitor cells homing: The SDF-1/CXCR4-Rac pathway may regulate endothelial progenitor cells homing through cellular polarization

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 256-258

  Shen, Li ^a   Gao, Yongxing ^a   Qian, Juying ^a   Sun, Aijun ^a   Ge, Junbo ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; RAC PROTEIN; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CELL HOMING; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MICROENVIRONMENT; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOKINE CXCL12; CHEMOKINES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYOCARDIUM; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECEPTORS, CXCR4; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 78651103006     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.10.014     Document Type: Article

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