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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biochim Biophys Acta. 2010 May 2;1802(7-8):593–600. doi: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2010.04.008

Table 2.

Cardiac function in the aerobically perfused ex vivo working mouse heart

Genotype +/+ −/−
Heart Rate (beats • min−1) 285 ± 9 246 ± 17*
Rate pressure product (bpm • mmHg • 10−3) 20 ± 0.5 18 ± 0.9
Cardiac Work (ml • mmHg • min−1) 6.5 ± 0.3 4.2 ± 0.6**
Cardiac Output (ml/min) 9.3 ± 0.4 5.8 ± 0.7**
Aortic Output (ml/min) 7.1 ± 0.4 3.7 ± 0.8**
Cardiac Power (mjoules • min-1) 71.6 ± 3.3 47.6 ± 7.0**

Values are mean ± SEM, n = 7–17,

*

P <0.05 vs. control,

**

P <0.01 vs. control