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From: Peripheral infusion of rat bone marrow derived endothelial progenitor cells leads to homing in acute lung injury

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Rat bone marrow-derived EPC in culture. A highly purified population of EPC was isolated from hindlimb bone marrow of male Sprague-Dawley rats and maintained in EBM-2 medium containing several growth factors (A). Typical morphology (spindle cell shape) for rat EPC (B) occurred after a few days in culture (phase contrast microscopy 30×). Outgrowth of EPC appeared to occur from an angioblast-like cell as already documented for human EPC (C, 30×). Maintaining of the endothelial colonies in specific growth medium resulted in the proliferation of characteristic endothelial cobblestone colonies (D, 20×).

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Respiratory Research

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