Sentences with phrase «called endothelial progenitor»

These cells were then grown in the laboratory under special conditions to select for stem - like cells called endothelial progenitor cells.

A team from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, N.Y., reports that it staved off full - blown metastasis in mice by preventing mini-tumors in the lungs from recruiting stem cells called endothelial progenitors, which assemble into blood vessels to nourish the malignancy.

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A critical discovery in this research was finding that the novel progenitor has a receptor protein on its cell surface called KDR, or vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2, which until now, was thought to be restricted to endothelial cells that form vessels, the progenitors for endothelial cells and the progenitors blood cells.

The team then introduced short RNA molecules that deactivate a gene called Id1, which promotes angiogenesis and is active in endothelial progenitors.