Cardiovascular Core
Contact Information
Director, Charles E. Murry
(206) 616-8685
murry@u.washington.edu
Co-Director, Elina Minami
(206) 897-1549
minamie@u.washington.edu
Description of Services
- Cardiovascular injury models (myocardial infarction, hindlimb ischemia and collateralization.
- Structural and physiological assessment of organ damage that reflect common complications of diabetes.
- Flow cytometric quantitation of circulating progenitor cells (e.g. c-kit, sca-1, Flt-1, and CD31).
- Bioimmunoassay analysis of growth factors, cytokines, and chemokines affecting the cardiovascular system in diabetes and in injury.
