Maturing EPCs into endothelial cells: may the force be with the EPCs: focus on "Fluid shear stress induces differentiation of circulating phenotype endothelial progenitor cells".

Randall F. Ankeny,* Casey J. Ankeny,* Robert M. Nerem, and Hanjoong Jo Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience and Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Department of Bio-inspired Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea; and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia