Table 2.

Effect of ischaemia and injury on endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) numbers.

	Healthy volunteers: IR	Healthy volunteers: injury	Patients
V/133 baseline	404 ± 38	267 ± 22	50 ± 14
2 d	465 ± 138	241 ± 27	23 ± 4
7 d	450 ± 179	270 ± 22	29 ± 13
4 m			40 ± 29
V/34 baseline	18 ± 6	11 ± 3	7 ± 2
2 d	11 ± 4	7 ± 1	7 ± 2
7 d	9 ± 2	12 ± 2	3 ± 1
4 m			2 ± 1
133/34 baseline	74 ± 14	78 ± 10	16 ± 2
2 d	73 ± 14	96 ± 13	19 ± 4
7 d	82 ± 13	105 ± 16	20 ± 4
4 m			21 ± 5

Values are mean ± SEM. IR: ischaemia-reperfusion; V/133 VEGFR2⁺/CD133⁺ cells; V/34 VEGFR2⁺/CD34⁺ cells; 133/34 CD133⁺/CD34⁺ cells.