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From: Endothelial cell colony forming units derived from malignant breast diseases are resistant to tumor necrosis factor-α-induced apoptosis

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Endothelial cell colony-forming units (EC-CFUs) were genotypically different from CD34+ VEGFR2+ double-positive cells.

(A) A scatter plot showing the correlations obtained between FACS analysis for percentages of CD34+ VEGFR2+ double-positive cells and the number of EC-CFUs from patients with malignant breast cancer (n = 27, left panel) and benign breast diseases (n = 19, right panel). (B) The expression of 21 cell-surface markers from 6 healthy controls and 10 malignant breast disease participants’, EPC-CFUs, ranging from 0 (green) to 4.41 (red) in log 10 transformations. Highly expressed transcripts for cell-identification markers were consistent with those of lymphocytes (CD2, CD3, CD20, CD25, CD38, CD45, CD69, and CD71).

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