cardiovascular system
• left ventricle circumference is increased at 3 weeks of age and this dilation becomes more prominent at both 3 months and 1 year of age
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• the left ventricular volume is increased almost 2-fold and the slope of the end-systolic pressure-volume relation is reduced by more than 50% in isolated working hearts, characteristics of dilated cardiomyopathy
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• contractility, as determined by the slope of the end-systolic pressure-volume relation, is reduced by more than 50% in isolated working hearts
• however, stroke volume is unaffected
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• echocardiography shows that left ventricular diameter and volume are greater at 3 and 5 weeks of age, however fractional shortening is unchanged
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• ventricular conduction is slower, with the 10-90% sinus rhythm activation time more than doubled
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• PR interval is longer
• however, no arrhythmias are detected in mice
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• cardiomyocytes show a reduced overshoot of action potentials and 2.6-fold lower maximum rate-of-rise (dV/dt max) of action potentials
• however, myocytes show no differences in intercalated disc structure and no increases in cardiac fibrosis
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• 10-fold reduction in magnitude of the sodium current in cardiomyocytes
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mortality/aging
N |
• mice exhibit a normal lifespan
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muscle
• the left ventricular volume is increased almost 2-fold and the slope of the end-systolic pressure-volume relation is reduced by more than 50% in isolated working hearts, characteristics of dilated cardiomyopathy
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• contractility, as determined by the slope of the end-systolic pressure-volume relation, is reduced by more than 50% in isolated working hearts
• however, stroke volume is unaffected
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Mouse Models of Human Disease |
DO ID | OMIM ID(s) | Ref(s) | |
dilated cardiomyopathy | DOID:12930 |
OMIM:PS115200 |
J:126850 |