TY - JOUR AU - Costa, Valerio AU - Sommese, Linda AU - Casamassimi, Amelia AU - Colicchio, Roberta AU - Angelini, Claudia AU - Marchesano, Valentina AU - Milone, Lara AU - Farzati, Bartolomeo AU - Giovane, Alfonso AU - Fiorito, Carmela AU - Rienzo, Monica AU - Picardi, Marco AU - Avallone, Bice AU - Marco Corsi, Massimiliano AU - Sarubbi, Berardo AU - CalabrĂ², Raffaele AU - Salvatore, Paola AU - Ciccodicola, Alfredo AU - Napoli, Claudio PY - 2010 DA - 2010/09/13 TI - Impairment of circulating endothelial progenitors in Down syndrome JO - BMC Medical Genomics SP - 40 VL - 3 IS - 1 AB - Pathological angiogenesis represents a critical issue in the progression of many diseases. Down syndrome is postulated to be a systemic anti-angiogenesis disease model, possibly due to increased expression of anti-angiogenic regulators on chromosome 21. The aim of our study was to elucidate some features of circulating endothelial progenitor cells in the context of this syndrome. SN - 1755-8794 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1755-8794-3-40 DO - 10.1186/1755-8794-3-40 ID - Costa2010 ER -