Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPCs) are recognized a
circulating pool of primitive endothelial precursors of different
origin from bone marrow or peripheral tissues, which express on
their surface endothelial markers, i.e. CD45-, CD34+, CD144+,
CD309 etc. There are at least two types of EPCs: early outgrowth
EPCs and late outgrowth EPCs, which distinguish each other their
structure, function, expression of CD markers and gene
expression. Whether various immune phenotypes of circulating
EPCs may play similar role in endothelial homeostasis acting as
endogenous repair system is not fully understand. However, both
immune phenotype EPCs are involved in the pathogenesis of CV
diseases across all stages of CV continuum. The short
commentary is depicted the possibility to use a dysfunction of
different EPCs as a predictive biomarker of CV disease
development with promising discriminative value to relate to CV
clinical outcomes.
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Immune Phenotypes of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells: A Biomarker of Cardiovascular Disease?
Alexander Berezin*
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Published: Nov 30, -0001
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DOI: 10.14437
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Alexander E Berezin (2017), Immune Phenotypes of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells: A Biomarker of Cardiovascular
Disease? Heart Health Open Access 3:118
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