This work was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81070039, No. 81270100 and No. 81200026) and from the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (No. 2008FJ3152 and No. 2011 SK3237).
Background It has been widely demonstrated that endothelial progenitor cells are involved in several diseases and that they have therapeutic implications. In order to define the altered pulmonary vascular homeostasis ...
supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30770931,81070039)
An increasing body of evidence suggests that apoptosis of structural cells in the lung might be an important upstream event in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).AP-2α is one of the impo...