Category Archives: Blood Health

EPC dysfunction contributes to vascular complications in type 1 diabetes.

This study explored the concept that endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are dysfunctional in diabetes, and found [...]

Endothelial progenitor cells and vasculogenesis, a review.

This review summarizes the biological features of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), and speculates on the uses [...]

Bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells participate in cerebral neovascularization.

This investigation into whether circulating endothelial progenitor cells contribute to neovascularization after stroke found in mouse [...]

The mesenchymal progenitor stem cells in umbilical cord blood.

This study examines the way umbilical cord blood can be harvested to generate in culture cells [...]

Chronic exercise and the endothelium.

This article discusses the relationship between exercise, muscle beds, and the body’s endothelium. They summarize [...]

Endothelial progenitor stem cells secrete angiogenic growth factors.

This study’s findings suggest that acetylated LDL(+)ulex-lectin(+) cells, commonly referred to as EPCs, release potent proangiogenic [...]

Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cell Levels Predict Cardiovascular Events in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis.

This recent study notes that reduced EPC levels predict cardiovascular events.  It finds that increasing EPC [...]

Fetal progenitor cells can persist in the blood streams of mothers up to twenty-seven years after birth.

This article explains that women who give birth can retain fetal stem cells in their [...]

Endothelial cell injury and dysfunction contributes to coronary artery diseases.

This article points out that the endothelial cell injury and dysfunction induced by hypercholesterolaemia contributes to atherosclerosis and [...]

Pulmonary arterial hypertension and the endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition.

This article discusses the endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition of cells in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, and the [...]