Cardiac Migration of Endogenous Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Patients with Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy

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Transcardiac gradients of circulating MSC and Stromal derived factor-1α (SDF-1α) related to cardiac inflammation and expression of SDF-1 mRNA. (a) Quantitative analysis of transcardiac gradients of MSC in patients without () and with () cardiac inflammation, as defined by the number of LFA-positive cells, is given as median and IQR; whiskers represent 95% CI. (b) Transcardiac gradient of MSC after dichotomisation with respect to SDF-1α mRNA in their EMB (cut-off: median, box plots are given as median and IQR; whiskers represent 95% CI). (c) Correlation between transcardiac gradients of MSC and cardiac inflammation. (d) Postcoronary SDF-1α levels (pg/mL) in patients without and with cardiac inflammation; bar graphs represent the mean ± SEM.

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