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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 13.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2009 Nov 17;3(1):10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.109.872085. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.109.872085

Figure 4. Echocardiographic assessment of cardiac function.

Figure 4

(a) Representative M-mode echocardiogram at the level of the papillary muscle from which left ventricular diameters were measured. (b) Echocardiography revealed a significant preservation of left ventricular fractional shortening at 4 weeks in the Acute BMC group and 6 weeks in both BMC groups compared to saline control animals. No significant difference in cardiac performance was found between Acute and Sub-acute BMC animals. (*P<0.05, **P<0.01, error bars indicate SEM).