The heterotopic heart transplantation in mice as a small animal model to study mechanical unloading – Establishment of the procedure, perioperative management and postoperative scoring

• Sumi Westhofen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: f.westhofen@uke.de

  Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-3289

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• Marisa Jelinek,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

  Affiliations DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Leonie Dreher,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Daniel Biermann,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany

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• Jack Martin,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Addenbrookes Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Helga Vitzhum,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Hermann Reichenspurner,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany

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• Heimo Ehmke,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Alexander Peter Schwoerer

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6050-0045

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