Research Article

Exogenous High-Mobility Group Box 1 Protein Injection Improves Cardiac Function after Myocardial Infarction: Involvement of Wnt Signaling Activation

Table 1

Cardiac function in SO, MI, and MI-HMGB1 group at 7 and 28 days.

7 days28 days
SOMIMI-HMGB1MIMI-HMGB1

HR (bpm) 3 3 4 ± 1 3 3 2 4 ± 1 1 3 4 4 ± 1 2 3 3 8 ± 1 3 3 5 1 ± 1 4
LVEF (%) 7 0 . 2 ± 3 . 2 4 3 . 1 ± 8 . 3 * 5 3 . 4 2 ± 7 . 3 *# 3 0 . 3 3 ± 4 . 6 * 5 0 . 6 1 ± 7 . 6 *#
LVEDV (cm2) 0 . 4 1 ± 0 . 0 2 0 . 6 1 ± 0 . 0 3 * 0 . 6 4 ± 0 . 0 4 * 0 . 7 0 ± 0 . 0 4 * 0 . 6 8 ± 0 . 0 3 *
LVSA (cm2) 0 . 2 3 ± 0 . 0 3 0 . 4 1 ± 0 . 0 4 * 0 . 4 9 ± 0 . 0 5 * 0 . 5 3 ± 0 . 0 2 * 0 . 5 0 ± 0 . 0 4 *

SO, sham-operated control; MI, myocardial infarction; HR, heart rate; HMGB1, high-mobility group box 1 protein; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; LVEDV, Left ventricular end-diastolic volume; LVESV, Left ventricular end-systolic volume * 𝑃 < 0 . 0 5 versus SO group; # 𝑃 < 0 . 0 5 versus MI group.