A 26-year-old, human immunodeficiency virus. (HIV).negative male, a diagnosed case of locally advanced adenocarcinoma rectum underwent diversion colostomy and received preoperative radiotherapy with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Clinical trials indicate a beneficial effect of intracoronary infusion of progenitor cells on myocardial function in patients with ischemic heart disease. The extent and potential determinants of proangiogenic progenitor cell homing into the damaged myocardium after intracoronary infusion and the underlying mechanisms are still unknown.
Method And Results: Circulating proangiogenic progenitor cells isolated from peripheral blood and cultivated for 3 days were labeled with radioactive indium oxine ((111)In-oxine).