Table 1.

Morphometric data on 8 wk of ACF

	Sham	ACF	Sham + MitoQ	ACF + MitoQ
Body weight, g	475 ± 16	517 ± 11	470 ± 29	489 ± 17
Heart weight, g	1.15 ± 0.04	2.11 ± 0.06*	1.20 ± 0.04	2.33 ± 0.14*
LV weight, g	0.80 ± 0.02	1.37 ± 0.03*	0.81 ± 0.04	1.37 ± 0.09*
Right ventricular weight, g	0.23 ± 0.01	0.46 ± 0.03*	0.22 ± 0.01	0.43 ± 0.04*
Lung weight, g	1.6 ± 0.06	2.2 ± 0.06*	1.6 ± 0.09	2.2 ± 0.17*
Tibia length, mm	49 ± 0.6	50 ± 0.3	49 ± 0.4	50 ± 0.5
Heart weight/body weight, g/g × 100	0.24 ± 0.007	0.409 ± 0.009*	0.247 ± 0.007	0.426 ± 0.02*
Number of rats/group	7	7	8	8

Values are means ± SE. Animals were divided into the following groups: sham operation (sham), volume overload of aortocaval fistula (ACF), sham with mitoubiquinone (MitoQ) treatment (sham + MitoQ), and ACF with MitoQ treatment (ACF + MitoQ).

LV, left ventricular.

^*P < 0.05 vs. the sham group.