Decreased organ weights in homozygous male Cprlow mice
The values presented are means ± S.D., n = 3. The organs shown were obtained from 3-month-old male mice. No difference was observed among the three strains in 3-month-old females or in either gender in 1-week-old or 1-month-old mice for these three organs.
Strain | Organ Weight | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart | Lung | Kidney | |||
| mg | |||||
| B6 | 158 ± 23 | 179 ± 12 | 432 ± 14 | ||
| 129/Sv | 164 ± 13 | 167 ± 14 | 469 ± 49 | ||
|
Cprlow/low
| 114 ± 10a | 138 ± 7a | 345 ± 24a | ||
↵ a Significantly different from B6 and 129/Sv strains (P < 0.05).