Cardiac blood flow and metabolism. Histograms indicate the recovery of (A) myocardial blood flow (rMBF in mL/min/mL of myocardium) and (B) oxygen production (oxidative metabolism, k-mono, in minute^-1 of myocardium) in infarcted areas after 1 month of follow-up, in treated animals, mobilized 5 days before (D - 5) or 4 hours after (H + 4) ligation, and in control animals; as indicated in “Materials and methods,” so as to account for hemodynamic differences at the different PET examinations, values in the infarcted area were corrected with noninfarcted (remote) area values. Then, the ratios up to 2 days after coronary ligation were calculated.