However in conditions such as dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), monocyte-chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) has been established as a homing factor of MSCs because of the presence of chemokine receptor type 2 (CCR2), a MCP-1 receptor, on the cell surface [195]. This evidence concerns the gene CCL2 and familial dilated cardiomyopathy.