Nature

Systolic and Diastolic Ventricular Function Assessed by Pressure-Volume Loops in the Stage 21 Venous Clipped Chick Embryo

Animal models are required to study mechanisms of early cardiovascular development. The chick embryo has been used as a model for many decades because the embryonic chick heart resembles the ...
Nature

The pathogenesis of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Early and evolving effects from an α-cardiac myosin heavy chain missense mutation

Figure 1: a, Baseline in vivo tracings of left ventricular (LV) pressure (upper) and the first derivative of ventricular pressure (dP/dt; lower) for young and older mice in both groups. Figure 2: a, ...