Figure 4. Improved Short-Term Myocardial Retention of CD34Shh.
Enzymatic digestion and subsequent fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis of HLA-ABC positive cells from CD34Shh and CD34EV treated mice hearts. A. Representative examples of FACS analysis for (i) CD34+ cells alone or, (ii) AMI cardiac tissue alone or, (iii) AMI cardiac tissue injected with CD34Shh. CD34+ cells were detected by staining digested cardiac tissue with HLA-PE antibodies. B. Quantification of the number of live CD34+ cells recovered from digested hearts as a fraction of the original intra-myocardially injected cell number (i.e. 2.5×104 cells). * represents P<0.05 using One-way repeated measures ANOVA and the post-hoc Holm-Sidak test. Bars represent group means ± SE where n=3 animals per group per time point.