Impaired interaction between platelets and endothelial progenitor cells in diabetic patients.
This editorial focuses on new data on the role of platelets of the recruitment of endothelial progenitor cells to sites of vascular lesion and their differentiation into endothelium. Questions of further research are raised.
Kleinbongard
Petra
P
Weber
Artur-Aron
AA
D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000473:pathology*; D002450:Cell Communication / Q000502:physiology*; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000502:physiology; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D054377:Chemokine CXCL12 / Q000502:physiology; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000473:pathology*; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Q000473:pathology*
D054377:Chemokine CXCL12