Baseline Echocardiographic Values For Adult Male Rats

There is no established regression formula relating LV mass to the necropsy weight for rats. The following formula for human beings was applied because it resulted in agreement with published necropsy rat heart weights: LV mass 1.04 [(LVIDd PW IVS)3 LVIDd3] 0.8 0.6; where LVIDd is LV … ................
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