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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2009 Aug 20;105(7):648–656. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.109.203109

Table 1.

Cardiovascular comparison between non-chimera and 3F-iPS chimeric cohorts.

Non-chimera Chimera p
Cohort, n 5 5
Vital signs
Body weight, g 33.8±1.0 36.2±2.1 0.25
Body core temperature, °C 35.2± 0.8 35.8±0.6 0.46
Respiration rate, /min 117±3 112±2 0.34
Heart rate, beats/min 469±10 455±9 0.29
Cardiovascular structure
Ascending aorta, mm 1.68±1.09 1.58±0.04 0.35
Main pulmonary artery, mm 1.80±0.14 1.81±0.14 0.75
Right ventricular outflow tract, mm 1.32±0.18 1.31±0.19 0.99
Left atrium, mm 1.79±0.13 2.04±0.19 0.35
LVDd/BW, mm/g 0.106±0.01 0.113±0.01 0.60
Left ventricular end-diastolic volume, μL 59.2±3.3 61.5±6.3 0.92
Left wall thickness (septum plus posterior wall), mm 1.43±0.05 1.56±0.08 0.25
Left ventricle/body weight, mg/g 2.52±0.24 3.22±0.30 0.12
Cardiac function
Fractional shortening, % 46.6±2.8 45.4±3.1 0.75
Ejection fraction, % 61.7±3.9 63.6±1.8 0.92

LVDd, left ventricular diastolic diameter. BW, body weight.