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The hypertrophic heart rat: a new normotensive model of genetic cardiac and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy.
Physiological genomics - 1 Jan 2002
Harrap Stephen B, Danes Vennetia R, Ellis Justine A, Griffiths Cory D, Jones Elizabeth F, Delbridge Leanne M D
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We describe a new line of rats with inherited cardiomyocyte and ventricular hypertrophy. From a second-generation cross of spontaneously hypertensive and Fischer 344 rats, we selected for low blood pressure and either high or low echocardiographic left ventricular (LV) mass over four generations to establish the hypertrophic heart rat (HHR) and normal heart rat (NHR) lines, respectively. After 13 generations of...
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