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Endothelial Microparticles Act as Novel Diagnostic and Therapeutic Biomarkers of Diabetes and Its Complications: A Literature Review

Table 2

Antigenic epitope in the surface of EMPs. Many studies have demonstrated that activation and apoptosis endothelial cells release EMPs, whose surface carried different antigen epitope [25].

CD markerAntigenExpressionReferences

CD31PECAM-1Apoptosis[20, 53, 54]
CD51Integrin avApoptosis[55]
CD54 ICAM-1Activation[54]
CD62EE-selectinActivation[20, 54]
CD105EndoglinApoptosis[20, 54]
CD106VCAM-1Activation[20, 54]
CD144VE-cadherinApoptosis[20]
CD146MelCAMApoptosis[12]

CD, cluster of differentiation; EMPs, endothelial microparticles; E-selectin, endothelial-selectin; ICAM-1, intercellular adhesion molecule-1; PECAM-1, platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1; VCAM-1, vascular cell adhesion molecule-1; VE-cadherin, vascular endothelial-cadherin.