TABLE 2.

Echocardiographic findings at the end of study

Parameters	Young	Young/ADSC	Old	Old/ADSC	Old (BP)/ADSC
No. of rats	11	12	11	10	10
Interventricular septum (mm)	0.5 ± 0.2	0.6 ± 0.2	0.6 ± 0.2	0.6 ± 0.2	0.6 ± 0.2
LVEDD (mm)	9.3 ± 0.2	7.8 ± 0.2*	9.7 ± 0.2*, †	9.1 ± 0.3 † , ‡	9.0 ± 0.2*, †
LVESD (mm)	7.6 ± 0.2	6.1 ± 0.2*	8.2 ± 0.3*, †	7.5 ± 0.2 † , ‡	7.2 ± 0.2*, †
LV posterior wall (mm)	1.7 ± 0.2	1.7 ± 0.2	1.7 ± 0.2	1.8 ± 0.1	1.8 ± 0.2
Fractional shortening (%)	18 ± 3	22 ± 3*	15 ± 4*, †	18 ± 3 † , ‡	20 ± 3*, † , §

Values are mean ± SD. Abbreviations as in Table 1.

Abbreviations: LVEDD, left ventricular end‐diastolic dimension; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; LVESD, left ventricular end‐systolic dimension.

^* P < .05 compared with young.

^† P < .05 compared with the infarcted group treated with young/ADSC.

^‡ P < .05 compared with old.

^§ P < .05 compared with old/ADSC.