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. 2014 Nov 26;6(5):540–551. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v6.i5.540

Table 1.

Phenotypic markers for circulating and resident progenitors cells

Name of the progenitors Antigens Notes (origin) Ref.
MSC, EPC and CEC in human
MSC CD105+, CD73+, CD90+, CD14-, CD34-, CD45-, CD79-, and CD19- Resident from various tissues Dominici et al[103]
vw-MPSC CD44+, CD90+, CD73+, CD34-, CD45- Resident from arterial adventitia Klein et al[54]
vw-MSC CD44+, CD90+, CD73+, CD105+, CD29+, CD166+, Stro-1, Notch-1 and Oct-4 Resident from aortic arches, thoracic and femoral arteries Pasquinelli et al[52,53]
Circulating MSC CD105+, CD166+, CD54+, CD55+, CD13+, CD44+; CD34-, CD45-, CD14-, CD31-, CD133- Circulating and resident from bone marrow; cartilage; synovial membrane; peripheral blood; umbilical cord blood; teeth Qian et al[104]
Circulating EPC CD34+, CD133+, VEGFR2+ (KDR) Circulating and resident from bone marrow; peripheral blood; umbilical cord blood; hematopoietic stem cells; hemangioblast; fat tissues
Circulating total PC CD133+; CD34+; CD133+/CD34+ Circulating Baker et al[105]
Circulating EC CD146+/CD31+ Circulating
Circulating EPC CD34+ VEGFR+ CD133+ Circulating
Circulating EPC (CD34+/CD133–/KDR+/CD45–) expressing VDR+ or OCN+, and VDR+ and OCN+ Circulating (in chronic kidney disease) Cianciolo et al[106]
Circulating EPC CD133+, CD34+, KDR+ Circulating (in rheumatoid arthritis with coronary Calcification) Yiu et al[107]
OPs in human
OP CD44+, CD63+, CD146+, Stro-1+ Resident bone marrow Gronthos et al[108]
CVC 3G5+ Resident from arteries (Pericytes markers) Bostrom et al[109]
Circulating osteocalcin-positive mononuclear cells OCN+ Circulating bone marrow derived Pal et al[93]
Circulating progenitor cells (Pro-calcific differentiation) CD34+/OCN+; CD34+/BAP+; CD34+/OCN+/BAP+; OCN+/KDR+ ratio; BAP+/KDR+ ratio; OCN+/ BAP+/KDR+ ratio Circulating (in diabete mellitus) Fadini et al[110]
Circulating EPC expressing osteocalcin OCN+/CD133+/CD34-/KDR+ Circulating (in cardiovascular disease) Flammer et al[95]
Circulating EPC expressing osteocalcin OCN+/CD133+/CD34-/ KDR+ Circulating (in coronary atherosclerosis, plaques instability) Gössl et al[97]
Circulating T cells CD28- CD8 +T cells Circulating (in calcific aortic stenosis) Winchester et al[111]
OPs in mouse models
Mesenchymal OPs CD45-/TER119-/ Sca-1+/PDGFRa+ Resident in the mouse bone marrow Morikawa et al[112]
Bone marrow-derived calcifying cells Sca-1+/PDGFRa- and Sca-1+/PDGFRa+ Resident from mice aorta Cho et al[113]
Circulating osteogenic cells Sca-1+, PDGFRa+, CD45-, CD44+, CXCR4+ Circulating in ectopic bone formation in a mouse model Otsuru et al[114]

MSC: Mesenchymal stromal cells; EPC: Endothelial progenitors cells; CEC: Circulating endothelial cells; vw-MPSC: Vascular wall-resident multipotent stem cells; vw-MSC: Vascular wall-resident multipotent mesenchymal stem cells; PC: Progenitors cells; CVC: Calcifying vascular cells; OPs: Osteoprogenitors; CD: Cluster of differentiation; Oct-4: Octamer-binding transcription factor 4; VEGFR: Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor; OCN: Osteocalcin; VEGFR2 (KDR): Kinase insert domain receptor; VDR: Vitamin D receptor; BAP: Bone alkaline phosphatase; Sca-1: Stem cells antigen-1; PDGFR: Platelet-derived growth factor receptor; CXCR-4: C-X-C chemokine receptor type 4.