Fig. 1From: Early Endothelial Progenitor Cells (eEPCs) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) - dynamics of cellular regeneration and mesenchymal transdifferentiationPercentages of peripheral circulating eEPC and eEPC regeneration in SSc. a shows CD133+/Flk-1+ cells (eEOCs). Percentages of double-positive cells significantly differed between Controls and all SSc categories (SSc all, lSSc, and dSSc) with lower values in SSc patients, respectively. b shows eEPC colony formation. Colony Forming Unit-Endothelial Cells (CFU-Ecs) were not different between the categories (Data as mean ± SEM, ✻ : p < 0.05 - for exact p-values see text)Back to article page