Avemar and Echinacea extracts enhance mobilization and homing of CD34+ stem cells in rats with acute myocardial infarction

Table 6 Effect of Avemar or Echinacea treatment on α-SMA-positive cells 14 days after infarction development

	Score of α-SMA-positive cells
Post-treatment with Avemar	+3
Pre- and post-treatment with avemar	+2
Post-treatment with Echinacea	+2
Pre- and post-treatment with Echinacea	+1

A score from 0 to 3+ was applied, where 0 = absence of alpha-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA)-positive cells in 5 fields, 1 = 1–5 cells/5 fields, 2 = 6–10 cells/5 fields and 3 = more than 10 cells/5 fields

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