Quotes About Endothelium

The common embryological origin of the endothelium and blood cells perhaps explains why many cytokines that control hematopoiesis are released by the vascular endothelium.

Some are small, dense, "angry," and much more likely to become oxidized, slipping through the cells that line the walls of the arteries (the endothelium) and beginning the inflammatory cascade that leads to heart disease.