Clinical Study

Intracoronary Infusion of Autologous CD133+ Cells in Myocardial Infarction and Tracing by Tc99m MIBI Scintigraphy of the Heart Areas Involved in Cell Homing

Table 1

Biological classification of the bioactive proteins secreted by the primo culture of CD133+/CD34+ BMMNCs ( ) after 36 h in conditioned culture medium.

Growth factors secreted by CD133+/CD34+ BMMNCs

(a) Proangiogenic factors
 Angiogenin
 Angiopoitien-2
 b-FGF (basic fibroblast growth factor)
 PLGF (placenta growth factor)
 VEGF-121 (vascular endothelial growth factor-121)
 VEGF165 (vascular endothelial growth factor-165)
 VEGF-D (vascular endothelial growth factor-D)

(b) Proinflammatory factors
 I-309 (CCL-1 (C-C motif) ligand-1)
 MCP-1 (CCL-2 (C-C motif) ligand-2)
 MIP-1a (CCL-4 (C-C motif) ligand-4)
 RANTES (CCL-5 (C-C motif) ligand-5)
 IL-1ra (interleukin-1 receptor antagonist)
 CXCL-16 (C-X-C motif) ligand-16
 MIF (macrophage migration inhibitory factor)
 sTNFR-1 (soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-1)

(c) MMPs-TIMPs
 MMP-1 (matrix metalloproteinase-1)
 MMP-3 (matrix metalloproteinase-3)
 MMP-9 (matrix metalloproteinase-9)
 MMP-13 (matrix metalloproteinase-13)
 TIMP-1 (tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1)
 TIMP-2 (tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-2)
 TIMP-4 (tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-4)

(d) Neurophilic factors
 AGRP (agouti-related protein)
 BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor)
 CTNF (human ciliary neurotrophic factor)
 b-NGF (basic nerve growth factor)
 AREG (amphiregulin)
 NT-3 (neurotrophin-3)
 NT-4 (neurotrophin-4)
 Activin A (promotes neural cell differentiation)
 Prolactin (promotes neurogenesis in maternal and foetal
 brains)

(e) Morphogenetic proteins
 BMP-4 (bone morphogenetic protein-4)
 BMP-5 (bone morphogenetic protein-5)
 BMP-6 (bone morphogenetic protein-6)
 BMP-7 (bone morphogenetic protein-7)