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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 20.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2014 Jun 20;115(1):176–188. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.113.301129

Table 2.

Normal pressure ranges and vascular resistance in rodents (adapted from 20, 117** represents statistical significance)

Hemodynamics Normal rats Monocrotaline rats
Pulmonary artery systolic pressure (mmHg) 25±1 60±5**
Pulmonary artery diastolic pressure (mmHg) 3±1 13±2**
Systemic artery mean pressure (mmHg) 110±8 95±6
Heart rate (bpm) 320±7 294±5**
CO (ml/min) 110±5 76±5**
Pulmonary vascular resistance (dynesseccm−5) 0.07±0.01 0.44±0.08**
Systemic vascular resistance (dynesseccm−5) 0.85±0.12 1.01±0.6