Figure E7.

Quantification of microvessel density in mouse hearts stained with CD31 antibodies. Control mice were subjected to sham transverse aortic constriction (TAC) surgery for 6 weeks and subsequent sham cardio-omentopexy (COP) surgery for 8 weeks. COP mice were subjected to sham TAC surgery for 6 weeks and subsequent COP for 8 weeks. TAC mice underwent TAC for 6 weeks and subsequent sham COP surgery for 8 weeks. TAC+COP mice were subjected to TAC for 6 weeks and subsequent COP for 8 weeks. The upper and lower borders of the box represent the upper and lower quartiles. The middle horizontal line represents the median. The upper and lower whiskers represent the maximum and minimum values of nonoutliers. Larger extra dots represent outliers. P values were determined using 2-way repeated measures analysis of variance followed by post hoc analysis using Mann–Whitney test for comparison between 2 groups. ∗P < .05 versus control; #P < .05 versus COP; &P < .05 versus TAC (n = 10 sections per group).