Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cell Levels Predict Cardiovascular Events in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis.

This recent study notes that reduced EPC levels predict cardiovascular events.  It finds that increasing EPC [...]

Childhood obesity, endothelial activation, and cardiovascular risk.

In a study of 30 obese and 28 healthy prepubertal children in Turkey, scientists have [...]

Inflammation and immune cell migration therapies.

This article details new discoveries in the field of leukocyte trafficking that have an effect [...]

Fetal progenitor cells can persist in the blood streams of mothers up to twenty-seven years after birth.

This article explains that women who give birth can retain fetal stem cells in their [...]

Endothelial inflammation: the role of differential expression of enzymes in the immunological properties of heparan sulphate.

This article points out that the extent and distribution of sulphate substitution on heparan sulphate plays a [...]

Endothelial cell injury and dysfunction contributes to coronary artery diseases.

This article points out that the endothelial cell injury and dysfunction induced by hypercholesterolaemia contributes to atherosclerosis and [...]

Hematopoietic progenitor stem cells and immune surveillance.

This article explains how hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells survey peripheral organs, and how they can aid the [...]

Exercise training, endothelial function, and coronary artery disease.

This study of 19 patients with coronary endothelial dysfunction tested whether exercise training had an effect [...]

Cardiovascular disease, endothelial health, and our biological rhythms.

This article discusses the relationship between biological rhythms such as our circadian clocks, endothelial cell [...]

Improved endothelial function is associated with a significant increase in exercise capacity.

Studying patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), this investigative report reveals that regular physical exercise improves [...]