Emerging role of circulating calcifying cells in the bone-vascular axis

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 2772-2781

  Fadini, Gian Paolo ^a,b   Rattazzi, Marcello ^a   Matsumoto, Tomoyuki ^c,d   Asahara, Takayuki ^d,e   Khosla, Sundeep ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b VENETIAN INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Italy)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Calcification; Endothelial cells; Stem cells; Vascular calcification

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BONE ISOENZYME; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CALCIUM; CD133 ANTIGEN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOPONTIN;

AGING; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BONE MARROW CELL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CIRCULATING CALCIFYING CELL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HIP FRACTURE; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MYELOID CALCIFYING CELL; NEOINTIMA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULSE WAVE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BONE AND BONES; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; MYELOID CELLS; OSTEOPOROSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84861911292     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.090860     Document Type: Article

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