Images of Mouse Hearts (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Images of Mouse Hearts

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These are ultrasound images of mouse hearts. Absence of PDE-9 protects the heart from the deleterious effects of pressure overload as seen in the image in the upper right corner. By contrast, mice with intact PDF-9 genes developed enlarged, dilated hearts captured here by walls that are stretched far apart from each other, as shown in the lower left corner.

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Johns Hopkins Medicine

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