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 ...