Table 1.

General characteristics as well as ventricular systolic and diastolic dimensions of 31-week-old control and J2N-k strain of cardiomyopathic hamsters

Parameter	Control	Cardiomyopathic
Body weight (g)	120 ± 1.67	134 ± 3.13
Heart/body weight ratio (×10−3)	4.26 ± 0.33	4.60 ± 0.42
Wet/dry lung weight ratio	4.22 ± 0.08	4.31 ± 0.11
Interventricular septum diastole (cm)	0.19 ± 0.02	0.16 ± 0.02
Interventricular septum systole (cm)	0.25 ± 0.02	0.25 ± 0.01
Left ventricular internal dimension diastole (cm)	0.42 ± 0.02	0.62 ± 0.02*
Left ventricular internal dimension systole (cm)	0.24 ± 0.01	0.43 ± 0.01*
Left ventricular posterior wall diastole (cm)	0.22 ± 0.02	0.24 ± 0.01
Left ventricular posterior wall systole (cm)	0.24 ± 0.02	0.30 ± 0.002

Values are means ± SE; n= 20. ^*P < 0.05 versus control.