Asthma | Favourable role in asthma progression 49–52: mobilisation, terminal differentiation and maintenance of mature eosinophil progenitors |
PH | Promote PH? 53–55 |
| Protective role against PH? 56 |
| No effect because of EPC dysfunction? 57 |
| EPC administration acts positively against PH in MCT-induced model 57, 58 |
COPD | Favourable role in COPD progression: decreased tissue repair and/or angiogenesis? 52, 59, 60 |