PPARγ activation but not PPARγ haplodeficiency affects proangiogenic potential of endothelial cells and bone marrow-derived progenitors

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kotlinowski, Jerzy ^a   Grochot Przeczek, Anna ^a   Taha, Hevidar ^a   Kozakowska, Magdalena ^a   Pilecki, Bartosz ^a   Skrzypek, Klaudia ^a   Bartelik, Aleksandra ^b,i   Derlacz, Rafal ^c,d   Horrevoets, Anton J G ^e   Pap, Attila ^f   Nagy, Laszlo ^f,g,h   Dulak, Jozef ^a   Jozkowicz, Alicja ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c R and D Department ^*  (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^h BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Endothelial progenitor cells; PPAR ; Therapeutic angiogenesis

Indexed keywords

2 CHLORO 5 NITROBENZANILIDE; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; ATAXIN 1; CD11B ANTIGEN; CD14 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE KC; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR7; ENDOGLIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROTEOGLYCAN; PROTEOGLYCAN 4; ROSIGLITAZONE; STEM CELL FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; 2,4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UPREGULATION; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; BONE MARROW; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; ISCHEMIA; METABOLISM; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; ISCHEMIA; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PPAR GAMMA; STEM CELLS; THIAZOLIDINEDIONES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84920847207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12933-014-0150-7     Document Type: Article

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