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. 2007 May 4;104(22):9529–9533. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0610373104

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4.

Altered cardiac morphology and coronary function in male adult sheep are absent when the mismatch of pre- and postnatal nutrition is minimized. (a) An echocardiograph showing the right ventricle (RV), interventricular septum (IVS), left ventricle (LV), and left ventricular wall (LVW) of the ovine heart. (b) Thickness of the intraventricular septum; CC (n = 14), CU (n = 10), UC (n = 14), and UU (n = 14). Also shown are MLCK relative mRNA expression in the coronary artery of male sheep as measured by real-time PCR [CC (n = 7), UC (n = 7), and UU (n = 4)] (c) and vascular response to acetylcholine in the coronary artery [CC (n = 10), UC (n = 9), and UU (n = 7)] (d). ∗, P < 0.05, significantly different from CC (by one-way ANOVA). Values are mean ± SEM. Insufficient PCR and myography data were obtained from CU animals.