The lymphatic vasculature is a blind-ended network crucial for tissue-fluid homeostasis,
immune surveillance and lipid absorption from the gut. Recent evidence has proposed an …

Myocardial infarction (MI) arising from obstruction of the coronary circulation engenders
massive cardiomyocyte loss and replacement by non-contractile scar tissue, leading to …

Ventricular dysfunction remains a hallmark of most cardiac disease. The mouse has become
an essential model system for cardiovascular biology, and echocardiography an established …

To-this-date, the exact molecular, cellular, and integrative physiological mechanisms of
anesthesia remain largely unknown. Published evidence indicates that anesthetic effects …

Recent advances in murine cardiac studies with three‐dimensional (3D) cone beam micro‐
CT used a retrospective gating technique. However, this sampling technique results in a …

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common inherited muscular dystrophy of
childhood, leads to death due to cardiorespiratory failure. Paradoxically, mdx mice with the …

Background—The role of the creatine kinase (CK)/phosphocreatine (PCr) energy buffer and
transport system in heart remains unclear. Guanidinoacetate-N-methyltransferase–knockout …

High‐resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has evolved into one of the major non‐
invasive tools to study the healthy and diseased mouse heart. This study presents a …

Aims The mdx mouse has proven to be useful in understanding the cardiomyopathy that
frequently occurs in muscular dystrophy patients. Here we employed a comprehensive array …

ECG‐gated cardiac MRI in the mouse is hindered by many technical difficulties in ECG
signal recording inside static and variable high magnetic scanner fields. The present study …