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Transthoracic echocardiography serves as a powerful and reliable tool for the noninvasive, serial assessment of cardiovascular structure and function in rodent models of heart disease.
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of using transthoracic echocardiography for noninvasive cardiovascular phenotyping in rat and mouse models.
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Reinforces TTE for serial rodent phenotyping; leaves open standardization to improve reproducibility across labs.
Liu et al. (2009) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease models in rodents. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) was evaluated. Transthoracic echocardiography serves as a powerful and reliable tool for the noninvasive, serial assessment of cardiovascular structure and function in rodent models of heart disease.
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