Echocardiographic and Histological Examination of Cardiac Morphology in the MouseDelphine Baudouy 1, Jean-François Michiels 1,2, Ana Vukolic 3, Kay-Dietrich Wagner 1, Nicole Wagner 1
1Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, INSERM, iBV, 2Department of Pathology, CHU Nice, 3Institute for Molecular Health Sciences, ETH Zurich
Echocardiographic examination is frequently used in mice. Expensive high-resolution ultrasound devices have been developed for this purpose. This protocol describes an affordable echocardiographic procedure combined with histological morphometric analyses to determine cardiac morphology.