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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2009 Aug 15;47(4):552–560. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2009.07.018

Table 1.

Cardiac function in heart-specific Na,K-β1 knockout mice

4 months 10 months 13–14 months
WT KO WT KO WT KO
(n=3) (n=5) (n=4) (n=5) (n=7) (n=7)
Body weight, g 30.3 ± 4.2 29.4 ± 2.2 31.7 ± 2.5 36.4 ± 1.2 37.0 ± 2.9 37.5 ± 1.7
Heart weight, mg 143.7 ± 16.0 180.8 ± 23.7 159.2 ± 12.7 188.3 ± 7.3 162.3 ± 8.5 188.7 ± 7.7*
Tibia length, mm 17.9 ± 0.1 18.0 ± 0.1 19.2 ± 0.6 19.5 ± 0.5 18.8 ± 0.1 19.3 ± 0.2
HW/BW, mg/g 4.8 ± 0.2 5.7 ± 0.4 5.0 ± 0.1 5.2 ± 0.2 4.5 ± 0.3 5.1 ± 0.2*
HW/TL, mg/mm 8.0 ± 0.8 8.8 ± 1.2 8.3 ± 0.4 9.7 ± 0.4* 8.6 ± 0.5 9.8 ± 0.4*
Left ventricular mass 81 ± 7 102 ± 16 118 ± 7 121 ± 11 113 ± 9 117 ± 14
PWT, mm 0.63 ± 0.04 0.73 ± 0.06 0.68 ± 0.01 0.75 ± 0.04 0.71 ± 0.02 0.68 ± 0.03
VST, mm 0.59 ± 0.02 0.71 ± 0.03 0.71 ± 0.03 0.79 ± 0.04 0.73 ± 0.02 0.72 ± 0.05
EDD, mm 3.97 ± 0.20 3.94 ± 0.15 4.44 ± 0.15 4.16 ± 0.10 4.20 ± 0.14 4.34 ± 0.17
ESD, mm 2.73 ± 0.12 2.68 ± 0.12 3.00 ± 0.09 2.70 ± 0.11 2.81 ± 0.13 3.24 ± 0.13*
LVFS, % 31.0 ± 0.8 32.0 ± 1.6 32.4 ± 1.4 35.1 ± 2.3 33.0 ± 1.7 25.3 ± 0.8#
Vcf, mm/s 5.27 ± 0.26 5.53 ± 0.45 6.54 ± 0.30 7.29 ± 0.40 6.61 ± 0.48 4.59 ± 0.17#
LVEF, % 65.5 ± 1.3 66.5 ± 2.4 68.5 ± 2.3 71.0 ± 2.3 66.4 ± 2.5 56.7 ± 1.8#

Values are SE of the Mean.

#

p<0.01

*

p<0.05