CSF3 and peripheral arterial disease: Based on available data, cell therapies in PAD based on the application of whole BM-MNC or on whole stimulated PBMNCs are more successful than methods which use subfractionated cell preparations [12], e.g. CD 133+ [14] or highly purified CD 34+ cells from peripheral blood after granulocyte- colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) mobilisation only [15].