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Endothelial Progenitor Obsolescence and Atherosclerotic Inflammation**Editorials published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiologyreflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of JACCor the American College of Cardiology.

2005; Elsevier BV; Volume: 45; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jacc.2005.02.030

1558-3597

Chunming Dong, Lawrence E. Crawford, Pascal J. Goldschmidt‐Clermont,

Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism

As early as in 1867, Cohnheim ([1][1]) noted that “all cells come from the bloodstream and therefore, in light of subsequent observations, from the bone marrow.” The identification of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), extracted from human peripheral blood in 1997 by Asahara et al. ([2][2]),