Plasmatic Membrane Expression of Adhesion Molecules in Human Cardiac Progenitor/Stem Cells Might Explain Their Superior Cell Engraftment after Cell Transplantation

Table 1

Echocardiographic values of the control, BM-MSC, and CPC groups at baseline and 4 weeks after myocardial infarction.

	CTRL		BM-MSC		CPC		values
	()		()		()		ANOVA	Control vs. BM-MSC	Control vs. CPC	BM-MSC vs. CPC
	Baseline	Final	Baseline	Final	Baseline	Final
AWd								0.0031
LVd							0.0154	0.0031		0.0381
PWd									0.0495
AWs
LVs							0.0407		0.0251
PWs
EDA
ESA								0.0196
FS							0.0065		0.0024
FAC							0.0072		0.0008
AWT							0.0081		0.0020

Abbreviations: AWd: anterior wall diastole thickness; AWs: anterior wall systole thickness; AWT: anterior wall thickening; EDA: end-diastolic area; ESA: end-systolic area; FAC: fractional area change; FS: fractional shortening; LVd: left ventricular diastole internal dimension; LVs: left ventricular systole internal dimension; BM-MSC: bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells; PWd: posterior wall diastole thickness; PWs: posterior wall systole thickness; w: weeks. All values are . AWd, LVd, PWd, AWs, LVs, and PWs are expressed in mm whereas EDA and ESA are expressed in mm². FS, FAC, and AWT are expressed as percentage.