There is a persistent and growing clinical need for readily-available substitutes for heart
valves and small-diameter blood vessels. In situ tissue engineering is emerging as a …

In the last decade there have been multiple studies concerning the contribution of
endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) to new vessel formation in different physiological and …

The blood flow through vessels produces a tangential, or shear, stress sensed by their
innermost layer (ie, endothelium) and representing a major hemodynamic force. In humans …

We demonstrate the ability of immobilized vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) to
capture endothelial cells (EC) with high specificity under fluid flow. To this end, we …

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) undergo functional maturation upon their migration from
bone marrow and introduction to a site of injury. This inflammatory licensing leads to …

The overall goal of this method is to describe a technique to subject adherent cells to
laminar flow conditions and evaluate their response to well quantifiable fluid shear …

Ligand-immobilization to stents and vascular grafts is expected to promote
endothelialization by capturing flowing endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs). However, the …

The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of peptides and peptide combinations to
support circulating endothelial colony forming cell (ECFC) rolling and adhesion under shear …

This study investigated the dynamic adhesion of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) to
peptide-grafted poly (ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) hydrogels and determined the …

Abstract Purpose Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) have been used as an autologous or
allogeneic source in multiple tissue engineering applications. EPCs possess high …