Table 1.

Systemic characteristics of pigs with renal artery stenosis (RAS), RAS treated with endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) or mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), and normal control.

	Normal	RAS	RAS+EPC	RAS+MSC
Body weight (kg)	49.5±1.5	56.0±3.0	53.6±4.0	51.2±4.1
Degree of stenosis(%)	−	70.4±5.2*	69.3±6.0*	74.2±8.3*
Mean arterial pressure (mmHg)	98.8±3.4	116.4±4.1*	115.9±5.7*	117.8±3.9*
Plasma renin activity(ng/ml/hr)	0.21±0.04	0.19±0.03	0.14±0.04	0.20±0.05
Creatinine(mg/dL)	1.4±0.06	1.7±0.14	1.5±0.15	1.2±0.1
Urine protein(µg/ml)	14.4±3.7	21.7±4.7	16.8±4.1	20.2±5.1

^*p<0.05 vs. normal