Figure 5.

Decreased cardiac tissue stiffness adds to the beneficial effect of bCS-SDF1 treatment after MI. (A) Stress–strain curves for each group. Healthy hearts were included in the analyses (data taken from ref (8)). (B) Elastic and (C) tangential moduli (MPa) of each group. Statistical significance was calculated by ANOVA, with SIDAK comparisons between the control group and the treated and healthy groups at day 60 post-implantation, and is represented as *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01. Data were obtained from 4 animals per group and represented as mean ± SEM.