Reply to the Editor

References 

1. Sodha NR, Clements RT, Boodhwani M, Xu SH, Laham RJ, Bianchi C, et al. Endostatin and angiostatin are increased in diabetic patients with coronary artery disease and associated with impaired coronary collateral formation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2009;296:H428–H434
2. Zhuo Y, Li SH, Chen MS, Wu J, McDonald Kinkaid HY, Fazel S, et al. Aging impairs the angiogenic response to ischemic injury and the activity of implanted cells: combined consequences for cell therapy in older recipients. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2009;[Epub ahead of print]
3. Kwon SM, Eguchi M, Wada M, Iwami Y, Hozumi K, Iwaguro H, et al. Specific Jagged-1 signal from bone marrow microenvironment is required for endothelial progenitor cell development for neovascularization. Circulation. 2008;118:157–165
   • CrossRef
4. Kawamoto A, Iwasaki H, Kusano K, Murayama T, Oyamada A, Silver M, et al. CD34-positive cells exhibit increased potency and safety for therapeutic neovascularization after myocardial infarction compared with total mononuclear cells. Circulation. 2006;114:2163–2169
   • CrossRef
5. Assmus B, Honold J, Schachinger V, Britten MB, Fischer-Rasokat U, Lehmann R, et al. Transcoronary transplantation of progenitor cells after myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med. 2006;355:1222–1232
   • CrossRef
6. Schachinger V, Erbs S, Elsasser A, Haberbosch W, Hambrecht R, Holschermann H, et al. Intracoronary bone marrow-derived progenitor cells in acute myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med. 2006;355:1210–1221
   • CrossRef
7. Wollert KC, Meyer GP, Lotz J, Ringes-Lichtenberg S, Lippolt P, Breidenbach C, et al. Intracoronary autologous bone-marrow cell transfer after myocardial infarction: the BOOST randomised controlled clinical trial. Lancet. 2004;364:141–148
   • Abstract
   • Full Text
   • Full-Text PDF (232 KB)
   • CrossRef