Glucose Tolerance and Left Ventricular Pressure-Volume Relationships in Frequently Used Mouse Strains

Table 1

Morphology in 4 mice background strains. All data are expressed as mean  ±  standard deviation. Values marked with * are 𝑃<.05 versus all others.

	Swiss	C57BL6/J	DBA2	BalbC
Body weight (BW) (g)	44.8  ±  5.1*	26.1  ±  4.6	27.1  ±  2.7	27.0  ±  2.8
Heart weight (g)	0.19  ±  0.03*	0.14  ±  0.02	0.14  ±  0.02	0.14  ±  0.01
Tibial length (um)	193  ±  7*	185  ±  7	175  ±  3	174  ±  4
HW/TL (g/100 um)	99.36  ±  16.08*	77.62  ±  10.99	82.94  ±  14.21	79.64  ±  8.66
HW/BW (mg/g)	4.26  ±  0.41*	5.51  ±  0.31	5.31  ±  0.48	5.13  ±  0.31