Sentences with phrase «becoming endothelial cells»

In those studies, sorted progenitor cells, some of which could become endothelial cells, were introduced into the heart.

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The onset of tube structure formation could be visualized as early as 4 h after plating for most endothelial cell lines, with extensive networks becoming visible within 12 h after plating.

Such a depot or niche of endothelial stem - like cells would be analogous to the epithelial stem cells located in the anterior limbus that supply cells to the basal epithelium as transient amplifying cells, the cells that become committed to the state of terminal differentiation [11,15].

Additionally, ERCs were reported to be able to differentiate into, or become, cells from the three different germ layers (see the previous post on MSCs for more details): mesoderm (muscle, bone, fat, cartilage, and endothelial cells), ectoderm (neurons), and endoderm (liver, pancreas, and lung cells)(Meng et al., 2007; Patel et al., 2008).

The endothelial cells became vessels, recruited fibroblasts and caused them to differentiate into smooth muscle cells.

At the same time, the protein Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) stimulates blood supply for the damaged tissue, Fibroblast Growth Factor - 2 (FGF - 2) stimulates the damaged cells to grow and reproduce themselves, Transforming Growth Factor - beta (TGF - beta) stimulates cartilage to grow, and Stem Cell Factor (SCF) stimulates your native inactive stem cells to become activated and assist in the repair of the damaged tissue.

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