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Figure 5 Time course of myocardial contrast intensity (MCI) in the anteroseptum and anterior wall before and after transplantation. The straight line indicates the cell transplant group (bone marrow mononuclear cell and bone marrow stromal cell subsets), and the dashed line indicates the control group. (A) At the anteroseptum (nontransplanted infarct area), there was no significant change between the groups or stages. (B) At the anterior wall (transplanted infarct area), the MCI of the cell transplant group significantly increased after transplantation (*p = 0.018), although that of the control group did not change.