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cardiac muscle
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cardiac muscle [′kärd·ē‚ak ¦məs·əl]
(histology)
The principal tissue of the vertebrate heart; composed of a syncytium of striated muscle fibers.


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Buchholz used the Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry to measure the amount of carbon 14 in DNA to establish the age of cardiac muscle cells in humans.
Among them were the specialised cardiac muscle cells that control heartbeat.
[FIGURE 3 OMITTED] Discussion Asymmetric septal hypertrophy is characterized by a disproportionately thickened ventricular septum that contains numerous hypertrophied, bizarrely-shaped and disorganized cardiac muscle cells (3).
 
 
 
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