Fig. 1
From: Clinical relevance of circulating angiogenic cells in patients with ischemic stroke
Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs). a Circulating angiogenic cells (CACs) constitute a cell population enriched in monocytes that exert their angiogenic effects via paracrine. b Colony-forming units (CFU-ECs) are EPCs that can be obtained under certain culture conditions formed by a combination of monocytes and T cells. CFU-ECs express endothelial markers but also myeloid and hematopoietic markers. c CACs cultured from patients were positive for Dil-Ac-LDL uptake (red areas) and FITC-UEA-I binding (green areas). d Box plot displaying the distribution if the CACs analyzed marker genes. e Agarose gel conformation of PCR amplicons sixes: (1) VEGF, (2) KDR, (3) CD31, (4) CD45 and CD133