title: Opportunities and challenges for repair of macrovascular disease using circulating blood-derived progenitor cells.
abstract: There are currently few solutions for diabetic vascular disease that involve repair of damaged tissues. The manuscript by Porat et al. in this issue, suggests a possible method to use a patient's own circulating blood cells to provide progenitors to repair damaged vascular tissues.
authors.affiliation: Section on Islet and Regenerative Cell Biology, Joslin Diabetes Center, USA.
authors.forename: Mary R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Loeken
mesh_terms: D001782:Blood Donors; D064987:Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000628:therapy*; D066026:Endothelial Progenitor Cells / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous