Table 1.

Identified pericyte markers

Marker	Other cell types with marker expression	References
PDGFR-β	Myofibroblasts, neurons and progenitors, mesenchymal cells, mesenchymal stem cells	Hirschi and Amore [99] Diaz-Flores et al. [100] Lin et al. [15]
PDGFR-α	Mesenchymal cells, neural stem cells/B cells	Takakura et al. [101] Jackson et al. [102]
NG2	vSMC, adipocytes, neuronal progenitors, glial cells, developing bone, muscle skin	Armulik et al. [31] Bergers and Song [103] Ruiter et al. [104] Huang et al. [105]
Desmin	Skeletal muscle cells, cardiac smooth muscle cells, mesangial cells	Nehls et al. [106] Diaz-Flores et al. [100]
α-SMA	vSMC, myofibroblasts	Armulik et al. [31] Strutz and Zeisberg [107]
RGS5	vSMC	Bondjers et al. [108]
Endosialin	Myofibroblasts, fibroblasts, vSMC	MacFadyen et al. [109] Smith et al. [110]
CD73	Mesenchymal stem cells	Diaz-Flores et al. [100]
CD13	vSMC, epithelial cells in the kidney, tumor endothelial cells	Dermietzel and Krause [111] Kunz et al. [112] Stefanovic et al. [113]
CD146	Mesenchymal stem cells	Crisan et al. [51]
CD105	Mesenchymal stem cells, endothelial cells, hematopoietic stem cells	Crisan et al. [51] Nassiri et al. [114] Pierelli et al. [115]
CD44	Mesenchymal stem cells, lymphocytes, hematopoietic stem cells	Sackstein et al. [116] Jalkanen and Jalkanen [117] Dimitroff et al. [118]
ANGPT1	Hematopoietic progenitor cells, glioblastoma tumor cells, mast cells	Sato et al. [119] Stratmann et al. [120] Nakayama et al. [121]
VEGF-A	Tumor cells, macrophages	Berse et al. [122]