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Detection and quantification of endothelial progenitor cells by flow and laser scanning cytometry.
Dominik Lenz, Karsten Lenk, Anja Mittag, Volker Adams, Nicolle Kränkel, Angelica Beate Winter Boldt, Andreas O. H. Gerstner, Martin Kristian Raida, T. Weiss, Rainer Hambrecht, Attila Tárnok
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Abstract
The dogma that vasculogenesis (i.e. proliferation andgrowth of entirely new vessels into tissues) is limited toembryogenesis was shattered by the evidence ofendothelial progenitor cells in the peripheral blood ofadults (2-4). Studies in patients with myocardialinfarction revealed a higher percentage of putativeprecursor cells of EPCs (mononuclear cells that wereCD34