Table 1.

Numbers of animal in each group eligible for analysis

	3 Days	7 Days	14 Days	35 Days	Total
T-infarct group	6	7	5	5	23(29)
T-sham group	6	5	6	5	22(26)
I-infarct group	5	5	6	6	22(40)
I-sham group	5	5	5	5	20(20)

Numbers in parentheses indicate total operations performed in each group. Animals were divided into the following groups: transplantation with myocardial infarction (T-infarct), transplantation without myocardial infarction (T-sham group), in situ with myocardial infarction (I-infarct group), and in situ without myocardial infarction (I-sham group). Animals in the transplantation groups eligible for analysis excluded those alive at the end of the specified period of followup but with a manual palpation score of <3 (see materials and methods for more detail).