cardiovascular system
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• lung vascular morphometric analysis shows higher percentage of fully muscularized small pulmonary arteries
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• increase in cardiomyocyte cross-sectional diameter
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• mice exhibit increased right heart dimensions, namely right ventricular inner diameter and right ventricular end-diastolic anterior wall thickness
• however, heart rate and systemic blood pressure do not differ in 6 months old males
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• transthoracic echocardiography shows a shortening of pulmonary acceleration time (a surrogate of pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance)
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• males spontaneously and consistently develop pulmonary hypertension at 6 months, but not 3 months, of age, with a significantly elevation of right ventricular systolic pressure
• females exhibit normal pressures at 6 months
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cellular
growth/size/body
muscle
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• increase in cardiomyocyte cross-sectional diameter
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