Endothelial progenitor cells and atherosclerosis

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1194-1201

  Ruan, Changwu ^a   Shen, Yan ^a   Chen, Rui ^a   Wang, Zhancheng ^a   Li, Jin ^b   Jiang, Yun ^a  

^a Shanghai 8Th People's Hospital   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Endothelial progenitor cells; PI3K; Review; SDF 1alfa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880566764     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/4172     Document Type: Article

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