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. 2017 Oct 18;7:13424. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-13949-1

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Long-term intake of P-BBG diet does not alter cardiac function. (A) The heart rate at baseline and after five weeks of diet is similar in P-BBG (n = 15) and Control (n = 15) mice. (B) The sustained intake of diet supplemented with P-BBG does not alter both the end-systolic and end-diastolic left ventricular (LV) wall thickness, which are similar to Control mice. (C) The indexes of global LV function are not altered by diet in each experimental group. P-BBG: low fat diet supplemented with barley beta-D-glucan enriched pasta (3 g/100 g of dry weight); EST: end-systolic thickness; EDT: end-diastolic thickness; LVEF: left ventricular ejection fraction; LVFS: left ventricular fractional shortening. All measurements are mean ± SD.