. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2013 Aug 3;0:155–164. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2013.07.016

Table 1.

Morphometry and echocardiography of 6 month old βAR-/MLP−/− mice.

Morphometry	WT	MLP−/−	β1+/−MLP−/−	β2−/−/MLP−/−
BW (g)	31.5±1.5	33.5±1	29.8±1.3	37.2±1.2^*
HW (mg)	132.6±18	243.3±62^*	236.1±98^*	168.5±42
HW/BW (mg/g)	4.2±0.1	6.9±0.7^*	7.2±0.5^*	4.9±0.3
LW/BW (mg/g)	4.8±0.2	5.7±0.2	6.2±0.4^*	4.9±0.2
n	8	6	11	8
Echocardiography
LVEDD (mm)	3.4±0.1	5.2±0.2^*	5.9±0.4^*	3.9±0.2
LVESD (mm)	1.8±0.1	4.2±0.3^*	4.7±0.4^*	2.4±0.2
LVPWD	0.96±0.05	0.8±0.04^*	0.8±0.02^*	0.96±0.04
LVPWS	1.24±0.05	0.99±0.06^*	1.00±0.03^*	1.19±0.04
n	8	14	10	23

BW: body weight; HW: heart weight; LW: lung weigh; LVEDD: left ventricular end-diastolic dimension; LVESD: left ventricular end-systolic dimension; LVPWD: left ventricular posterior wall in diastole; LVPWS: left ventricular posterior wall in systole; n: number of mice.

p<0.05 vs WT.