Table 1.

General characteristics and baseline functional parameters of isolated hearts from both wild-type and adenosine A₃ receptor knock-out mice

	Wild Type (n = 34)	A3 Receptor Knockout (n = 26)
General characteristics
Age, wk	16.6 ± 0.7	19.1 ± 0.5*
Body weight, g	29.1 ± 0.6	32.3 ± 1.4*
Heart weight, mg	117.6 ± 3.6	123.6 ± 3.1
Baseline functional parameters
Coronary flow, ml/min	1.08 ± 0.05	1.02 ± 0.04
Heart rate, beats/min	337 ± 5.5	337 ± 4.6
Ventricular developed pressure, mmHg	66.8 ± 2.05	69.8 ± 2.32

All values are means ± SE; n, number of animals.

^*P < 0.05 vs. wild-type mice.