Pathway-specific array analysis of cd45- [cd34+/kdr+]EPCs: impact of age, stroke susceptibility and sex.

Legend: 10-x inc, 10-fold increase in expression level over reference sample; 6 m, 6months; 4 m, 4 months; 2 m, 2 months; EPC, cd45- [cd34+/kdr+] endothelial progenitor cells; DEspR, dual endothelin1/VEGFsp receptor; f, female; m, male; nc, no change; nsp, non-stroke prone, sp, stroke prone; x, not detected, rep, reported involvement in vascular remodeling via intimal hyperplasia; all rat groups with n = 6; P-values, from 2-way ANOVA with multiple pairwise comparison, *, decrease in old compared to juvenile sample; inc, increase in old compared to juvenile sample; gene names, GenBank gene names.