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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: Cardiovasc Res. 2004 Oct 1;64(1):61–71. doi: 10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.05.011

Table 3.

Size of left ventricle, risk region, and infarct

Group Body weight (g) Heart weight (g) Left ventricular weight (mg) Heart weight/body weight (%) Risk region weight (mg) Infarct weight (mg) Risk region (% of left ventricle) Infarct (% of risk region) Infarct (% of left ventricle)
I 31.1 ± 0.8 151.8 ± 5.7 114.2 ± 4.8 0.49 ± 0.02 45.5 ± 3.2 27.3 ± 2.2 40.0 ± 2.7 60.5 ± 2.6 24.1 ± 1.8
II 29.6 ± 1.0 155.1 ± 5.8 112.2 ± 4.1 0.53 ± 0.02 42.2 ± 2.2 14.0 ± 1.5 38.2 ± 2.9 33.5 ± 3.6* 12.7 ± 1.5*
III 33.0 ± 1.0 166.9 ± 5.7 128.0 ± 5.4 0.51 ± 0.02 49.7 ± 5.1 30.5 ± 4.1 38.2 ± 2.8 59.9 ± 3.8 23.4 ± 2.7
IV 29.5 ± 1.7 145.4 ± 9.2 110.1 ± 7.9 0.49 ± 0.02 48.4 ± 5.2 32.5 ± 4.8 43.2 ± 2.1 65.1 ± 3.1 28.4 ± 2.4

Data are mean ± S.E.M.

Heart weight = total heart weight (ventricles and atria); LV = left ventricle.

*

P < 0.05 vs. groups I, III, and IV.