Animal characteristics and echocardiographic measurements in CCR7 deficient and wild-type mice 6 weeks after sham operation or myocardial infarction.

MI, myocardial infarction; WT, wild-type mice; CCR7−/−, CCR7 knock-out mice; BW, body weight; TL, tibia- length; bpm, beats per minute; LVW, left ventricular weight; INFW, infarction weight; RVW, right ventricular weight; LW, lung weight; Echo-2D, two-dimensional echocardiography; LV circ/Inf. circ, left ventricular circumference/infarct circumference; Echo-MM, M-mode echocardiography; LVDd, left ventricular diameter in diastole; PWd, posterior wall thickness in diastole; LVFS, left ventricular fractional shortening; EF, ejection fraction; *p†p