KIT and myocardial infarction: The study was carried out in adult Wistar rats in which an experimental acute myocardial infarction (MI) was induced and the border of the infarcts were injected with GFP+c-kit+ for the first group, “GFP-expressing CD45-c-kit+ CSCs (CSCGFP)” for the second group, and the placebo group were injected with PBS.