Fig. 3

Proteinuria in all ‘6 weeks’ groups. Protein excretion was significantly elevated after ischemia and decreased as a results of cell therapy. Anti-proteinuric effects were observed in the presence of both, native and transfected cells. a shows the respective urine volumes of all animals analyzed, b illustrates the respective means +/−SEM of all four groups (Data as mean +/− SEM, *: p-value between ‘Control 6 w’ and ‘IRI 6 w’ < 0.05; #: p-value between ‘IRI 6 w’ and either ‘IRI + EPCs 6w’ or ‘IRI + EPCsAtg5 6w’ < 0.05)