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Published in final edited form as: J Cell Mol Med. 2013 Mar 14;17(5):617–625. doi: 10.1111/jcmm.12036

Table 1.

Major echocardiography parameters evaluated seven days after the experimentally induced myocardial infarction

Variables	Groups
Variables	Sham	MI	MI + MSC	MI + pMSC
LVs diameter (mm)	3.96 ± 0.9^a	5.25 ± 0.9^b ^†	4.67 ± 1.1^a,b ^†	5.06 ± 1.7^a,b ^†
LVs volume (uL)	72.7 ± 40.6^a	162.0±39.1^b ^†	118.3±71.6^a,b ^†	107.8 ± 56.0^a,b ^†
Ejection fraction (%)	71.3 ± 8.5^a	56.5 ± 10.9^b ^†	61.1 ± 18.9^a,b ^†	73.5 ± 9.3^a
FS (%)	42.05 ± 7.6^a	31.05 ± 7.6^b ^†	32.59 ± 14.4^b ^†	34.76 ± 9.6^a,b
LS mean (%)	9.14 ± 4.98^a	22.5± 17.89^b	11.3± 13.44^a ^†	15.51 ± 4.4^a
PB radial strain (%)	17.74 ± 8.2^a	6.20 ± 1.4^b	24.0 ± 13.2^a,b ^†	18.9 ± 13.5^a,b ^†

MI: myocardial infarction; MI + MSC: myocardial infarction treated with undifferentiated mesenchymal stem cells; MI + pMSC: myocardial infarction treated with primed mesenchymal stem cells; LVs: left ventricle end systolic; FS: Fractional shortening; LS: Longitudinal Strain; PB: Posterior Base.

^a,b

differences between the groups at day 7 (p<0.05)

^†

different from day 0 inside the group (p<0.05)