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A novel mouse model of X-linked cardiac hypertrophy.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 1 Jun 2008
Leatherbury L, Yu Q, Chatterjee B, Walker D L, Yu Z, Tian X, Lo C W
Abstract excerpt
We recovered a novel mouse mutant exhibiting neonatal lethality associated with severe fetal cardiac hypertrophy and with some adult mice dying suddenly with left ventricular hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Using Doppler echocardiography, we screened surviving adult mice in this mutant line for cardiac hypertrophy. Cardiac dimensions were obtained either from two-dimensional images collected using a novel ECG-gated...
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