Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

Scaling of cardiac morphology is interrupted by birth in the developing sheep Ovis aries.

Published in Journal of anatomy

Scaling of the heart across development can reveal the degree to which variation in cardiac morphology depends on body mass. In this study, we assessed the scaling of heart mass, left and right ventricular masses, and ventricular mass ratio, as a function of eviscerated body mass across fetal and postnatal development in Horro sheep Ovis aries (~50...