HGF and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The association of HGF with these differentiation, adhesion and shape change genes is in accordance with a view that the T2D monocytes are differentiating into the elongated vascular support pro-angiogenic cells (CACs) [25], HGF is a marker of such cells and suggests that the monocytes in our Ecuadorian patients with T2D are instrumental in repairing the vessel walls damaged by T2D related processes.