Detection of Inflammatory Circulating Endothelial Cells Using Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells Detached from Culture Dishes by Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha as Control Cells

Junpei Tochikubo^1,2, Naoyuki Matsuda^1*, Yoshimi Ota¹, Tomoko Higashi¹, Yudai Takatani¹, Masato Inaba¹, Yushi Adachi¹ and Norihiko Shiiya²

¹Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, E-mail: nmatsuda@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

²First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, E-mail: nmatsuda@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp