Gene expression profile of rat left ventricles reveals persisting changes following chronic mild exercise protocol: implications for cardioprotection

Table 1 Animal characteristics.

	Control rats	Exercise-trained rats	p
Number of animals	10	10
Body weight, g	588 (496–629)	567 (519–613)	ns
Heart weight, g	1.41 (1.30–1.56)	1.40 (1.23–1.60)	ns
Heart/body weight ratio	2.46 (2.27–2.66)	2.48 (2.34–2.80)	ns
Left ventricle wall thickness, mm	4.16 (3.70–5.10)	4.08 (3.55–5.02)	ns
LV/(RV+S)	0.95 (0.81–1.04)	0.91 (0.84–1.47)	ns
Soleus/body weight ratio	0.38 (0.30–0.48)	0.45 (0.40–0.51)	0.002

LV/(RV+S) = Left ventricle/(right ventricle + septum) wall thickness. Data are expressed as median and range.

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