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Endothelial stem cells (ESCs) are one of three types of stem
cells found in bone marrow. They are multipotent, which
describes the ability to give rise to many cell types, whereas a
pluripotent stem cell can give rise to all types. ESCs have the
characteristic properties of a stem cell: self-renewal and
differentiation. These parent stem cells, ESCs, give rise to
progenitor cells, which are intermediate stem cells that lose
potency. Progenitor stem cells are committed to differentiating
along a particular cell developmental pathway. ESCs will
eventually produce endothelial cells (ECs), which create the
thin-walled endothelium that lines the inner surface of blood
vessels and lymphatic vessels.   ECs were first thought to arise
from extraembryonic tissues because blood ves