By Dr. Kelly O'Connell Pre-clinical animal studies are essential to drug development and provide a wealth of mechanistic, therapeutic, and safety-related information. The resulting data ultimately help propel drugs into the phases of clinical trials to …

  Parasternal Long Axis view of a mouse neonate heart imaged at postnatal day 4. LV, left ventricle. RVOT, right ventricular outflow track. Ao root, aortic root. … … Mouse neonate heart PND …

Left ventricle of neonatal mouse at postnatal day 4, imaged in parasternal short axis view, with papillary muscles labeled. … … Parasternal short axis view of mouse neonate …

PW Doppler of mitral blood flow in a postnatal day 9 mouse taken from an apical 4 chamber view, with related cardio measurements.  … … Mitral flow and measurements of a mouse neonate …