TY - BOOK AU - Mai Samir Mostafa Riad AU - Dina Sabry Abdelfatah , AU - Mohamed Talaat Abdelaziz , AU - Olfat Nouh Riad , TI - Effect of lipopolysaccharide preconditioning on human umbilical cord blood-derived endothelial progenitor cells / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mai Samir Mostafa Riad , KW - EPCs KW - HUCB KW - LPS N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Medical-Biochemistry; Issued also as CD N2 - Endothelial progenitors cells (EPCs) are important for the development of cell therapies for various diseases. However, the major obstacles in developing such therapies are low quantities of EPCs that can be generated from the patient and the lack of adequate non-invasive imaging approach for in vivo monitoring of transplanted cells. Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a key mediator in the vascular leak syndromes associated with gram-negative bacterial infections UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -