... treated with ESAs. Results: In our series, substantial morphological overlap was found between responder and nonresponder patients. On the contrary, patients with a percentage of CD34-positive blasts >3% or with p53 protein expression <1% responded with a significantly higher frequency to ESAs...

... by physiological factors (e.g. age, sex) or pathological factors (e.g. pulmonary hypertension) on EC have not been ascertained up to now. Methods: In order to determine the influence of pulmonary hypertension (PH), age and sex on EC, we localized the expression of the endothelial marker CD34 immunohistologically...

.... Endothelial cell HUVEC Organ culture Adhesion molecule CD34 Endothelial nitric oxide synthase Fibrinolysis Tissue plasminogen activator Plasminogen activator inhibitor Tumor necrosis factor-α Original Paper Pathobiology 1999;67:99 107 Received: July 17, 1998 Accepted: August 5, 1998 Comparative...