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. 2011 Oct 15;2012:129486. doi: 10.1155/2012/129486

Table 1.

Similarity in cardiac function of C57BL/6 versus B6.129 mice prior to infection (day 0) and during acute (day 10) or chronic (day 35) CVB3 myocarditis based on pressure-volume analysis.

Day 0 Day 10 pi Day 35 pi
Parameter BL/6 B6.129 BL/6 B6.129 BL/6 B6.129

HR 591 ± 3.9 596 ± 3.7 535 ± 6.0 567 ± 11.5* 569 ± 9.0 601 ± 5.7**
ESP 114 ± 2.1 111 ± 3.8 98 ± 2.1 108 ± 2.6** 109 ± 3.9 116 ± 3.4
EDP 6.3 ± 0.6 6.9 ± 2.5 4.1 ± 0.5 5.5 ± 0.5 4.8 ± 0.4 4.6 ± 0.7
dP/dT Max 11336 ± 463 10766 ± 250 10019 ± 538 10241 ± 395 11042 ± 852 10658 ± 555
dT/dT Min −10628 ± 290 −10022 ± 309 −8484 ± 306 −9549 ± 454 −10017 ± 528 10852 ± 432
EF 71 ± 4.3 74 ± 2.2 58 ± 3.5 66 ± 5.7 69 ± 4.4 69 ± 2.4
ESV 5.7 ± 1.1 4.0 ± 0.4 10 ± 1.1 7.4 ± 1.8 6 ± 1.0 4 ± 0.2
EDV 18 ± 1.2 16 ± 1.0 24 ± 1.2 18 ± 2.5 18 ± 1.7 14 ± 0.7
CO 7499 ± 408 6940 ± 318 7276 ± 495 6083 ± 485 6885 ± 672 5960 ± 417
Ees 9.2 ± 0.8 8.3 ± 0.9 7.5 ± 0.5 8.4 ± 1.0 11.5 ± 1.2 15 ± 1.4
Ea/Ees 1.05 ± 0.1 1.3 ± 0.2 1.0 ± 0.0 1.1 ± 0.2 0.9 ± 0 0.8 ± 0.06
V0 −7.7 ± 1.3 −11.3 ± 1.6 −5.4 ± 1.2 −6.4 ± 2.1 −4.2 ± 1.9 −5.6 ± 1.0
Tau 5.2 ± 0.2 5.1 ± 0.3 5.6 ± 0.2 5.6 ± 0.2 5.6 ± 0.2 5.1 ± 0.2

CO (μL/min), cardiac output; dP/dT Max, peak rate of pressure rise (mmHg/s); dP/dT Min, peak rate of pressure decline (mmHg/s); Ea/Ees, arterial elastance normalized to Ees; EDP (mmHg), end diastolic pressure; EDV (μL), end diastolic volume; Ees (mmHg/μL), LV end systolic elastance (stiffness); EF (%), ejection fraction; ESP (mmHg), end systolic pressure; ESV (μL), end systolic volume; HR (bmp), heart rate; PFR/EDV (s−1), peak flow rate normalized to EDV; PMX/EDV2, maximum ventricular power normalized to EDV2 (mW/μL2) × 100; PRSW (mmHg), preload recruitable stroke work; SV (μL), stroke volume; SW, stroke work; Tau, Weiss (ms), time constant of diastolic relaxation; V0 (μL), X-intercept of the ESP-volume relationship. *:P < 0.05, **:P < 0.01, and ***:P < 0.001 compare BL/6 to B6.129 by Student's t-test at each timepoint. Data shown as mean ± SEM for 10 mice/group per timepoint.