Cellular plasticity: the good, the bad, and the ugly? Microenvironmental influences on progenitor cell therapy

Myocardial transfection with naked DNA plasmid encoding hepatocyte growth factor prevents the progression of heart failure in dogs

(2011) Sharad Rastogi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Transforming growth factor-β2 promotes Snail-mediated endothelial–mesenchymal transition through convergence of Smad-dependent and Smad-independent signalling

(2011) Damian Medici et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

VEGF and FGF prime vascular tube morphogenesis and sprouting directed by hematopoietic stem cell cytokines

(2011) A. N. Stratman et al.   BLOOD

Malignant Tumor Formation After Transplantation of Short-Term Cultured Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Experimental Myocardial Infarction and Diabetic Neuropathy

(2011) Jin-Ok Jeong et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Role of Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in Endothelial Progenitor Cell Dysfunction

(2011) C. V. Desouza et al.   DIABETES

Human macrophages primed with angiogenic factors show dynamic plasticity, irrespective of extracellular matrix components

(2011) Diana T.A. Ploeger et al.   IMMUNOBIOLOGY

Combined implantation of CD34+and CD14+cells increases neovascularization through amplified paracrine signalling

(2011) G. Krenning et al.   Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

De novo cardiomyocytes from within the activated adult heart after injury

(2011) Nicola Smart et al.   NATURE

Dynamic molecular processes mediate cellular mechanotransduction

(2011) Brenton D. Hoffman et al.   NATURE

PDGF-BB and TGF-β1 on cross-talk between endothelial and smooth muscle cells in vascular remodeling induced by low shear stress

(2011) Ying-Xin Qi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hyperglycaemia-induced cardiomyocyte death is mediated via MCP-1 production and induction of a novel zinc-finger protein MCPIP

(2010) Craig W. Younce et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Endothelial progenitor cells give rise to pro-angiogenic smooth muscle-like progeny

(2010) Jan-Renier A.J. Moonen et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

The Presence of Apoptotic Bone Marrow Cells Impairs the Efficacy of Cardiac Cell Therapy

(2010) Frederic Mouquet et al.   CELL TRANSPLANTATION

Novel Approach by Nanobiomaterials in Vascular Tissue Engineering

(2010) Huey-Shan Hung et al.   CELL TRANSPLANTATION

Magnetic Targeting Enhances Engraftment and Functional Benefit of Iron-Labeled Cardiosphere-Derived Cells in Myocardial Infarction

(2010) Ke Cheng et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Krüppel-like factor 2 improves neovascularization capacity of aged proangiogenic cells

(2010) Reinier A. Boon et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Cardiac progenitor cells: Potency and control

(2010) Paolo Di Nardo et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

The origin of fibroblasts and mechanism of cardiac fibrosis

(2010) Guido Krenning et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

Epicardium-derived cells enhance proliferation, cellular maturation and alignment of cardiomyocytes

(2010) Alida Weeke-Klimp et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY

Tissue factor up-regulation in proinflammatory conditions confers thrombin generation capacity to endothelial colony-forming cells without influencing non-coagulant properties in vitro

(2010) W. CUCCUINI et al.   JOURNAL OF THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS

Conversion of vascular endothelial cells into multipotent stem-like cells

(2010) Damian Medici et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Rat Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells Transplantation Attenuates Cardiac Dysfunction Post Infarction and Biopolymers Enhance Cell Retention

(2010) Maria E. Danoviz et al.   PLoS One

Hypoxic/Normoxic Preconditioning Increases Endothelial Differentiation Potential of Human Bone Marrow CD133+ Cells

(2010) Lee-Lee Ong et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART C-METHODS

Pleiotropic Effects of Transforming Growth Factor-β in Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation

(2010) Stephanie M. Coomes et al.   TRANSPLANTATION

Combined therapy with cardioprotective cytokine administration and antiapoptotic gene transfer in postinfarction heart failure

(2009) Hideshi Okada et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Release of proinflammatory mediators and expression of proinflammatory adhesion molecules by endothelial progenitor cells

(2009) Yanmin Zhang et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Shear Stress Increases Expression of the Arterial Endothelial Marker EphrinB2 in Murine ES Cells via the VEGF-Notch Signaling Pathways

(2009) Tomomi Masumura et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Effects of cyclic stretch on proliferation of mesenchymal stem cells and their differentiation to smooth muscle cells

(2009) Samane Ghazanfari et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

MCP-1 causes cardiomyoblast death via autophagy resulting from ER stress caused by oxidative stress generated by inducing a novel zinc-finger protein, MCPIP

(2009) Craig W. Younce et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is cardioprotective in mice by maintaining microvascular integrity and cardiac architecture

(2009) Z. Xu et al.   BLOOD

Induction of CRP3/MLP expression during vein arterialization is dependent on stretch rather than shear stress

(2009) Luciene Cristina Gastalho Campos et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Human cardiomyocyte progenitor cell transplantation preserves long-term function of the infarcted mouse myocardium

(2009) Anke M. Smits et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Nanoscale engineering of biomimetic surfaces: cues from the extracellular matrix

(2009) Klaus von der Mark et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Priming With Angiopoietin-1 Augments the Vasculogenic Potential of the Peripheral Blood Stem Cells Mobilized With Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Through a Novel Tie2/Ets-1 Pathway

(2009) Min-Seok Kim et al.   CIRCULATION

A New Direction for Cardiac Regeneration Therapy

(2009) Elizabeth M. Winter et al.   Circulation-Heart Failure

Noninvasive Quantification and Optimization of Acute Cell Retention by In Vivo Positron Emission Tomography After Intramyocardial Cardiac-Derived Stem Cell Delivery

(2009) John Terrovitis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Generation of Human Inflammation-Resistant Endothelial Progenitor Cells by A20 Gene Transfer

(2009) Jia Wei Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF VASCULAR RESEARCH

Nitric oxide and nitric oxide synthase isoforms in the normal, hypertrophic, and failing heart

(2009) Soban Umar et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY

Endothelial progenitor cell-based neovascularization: implications for therapy

(2009) Guido Krenning et al.   TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Ex Vivo Priming of Endothelial Progenitor Cells With SDF-1 Before Transplantation Could Increase Their Proangiogenic Potential

(2008) Faouzia Zemani et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Vascular smooth muscle cells for use in vascular tissue engineering obtained by endothelial-to-mesenchymal transdifferentiation (EnMT) on collagen matrices

(2008) Guido Krenning et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Myosin light-chain kinase contributes to the proliferation and migration of breast cancer cells through cross-talk with activated ERK1/2

(2008) Xiaolei Zhou et al.   CANCER LETTERS

Cyclic strain induces mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation into vascular smooth muscle cells by activating PDGF receptor β

(2008) Nobutaka Shimizu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Fluid shear stress induces arterial differentiation of endothelial progenitor cells

(2008) Syotaro Obi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Embryonic cardiomyocytes beat best on a matrix with heart-like elasticity: scar-like rigidity inhibits beating

(2008) A. J. Engler et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

CD34+cells augment endothelial cell differentiation of CD14+endothelial progenitor cellsin vitro

(2008) G. Krenning et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Systems approaches to preventing transplanted cell death in cardiac repair

(2008) Thomas E. Robey et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY

Material-based deployment enhances efficacy of endothelial progenitor cells

(2008) E. A. Silva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA