Synergistic effect of VEGF and SDF-1α in endothelial progenitor cells and vascular smooth muscle cells

• Main Authors: Haiyan Yang (Author), Cancan He (Author), Yang Bi (Author), Xu Zhu (Author), Dan Deng (Author), Tingting Ran (Author), Xiaojuan Ji (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a potent agonist of angiogenesis that induces proliferation and differentiation of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) after vascular injury. Previous studies have suggested that stromal cell-derived factor 1-alpha (SDF-1α) and VEGF have a synergistic eff...