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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The researchers looked at cardiac muscle cells -- cardiomyocytes (CMs).

Therefore, in the present study, we sought to identify an exercise method capable of effectively preventing cardiovascular diseases through protection of the cardiac muscle. Specifically, we compared the effects between two 12-week exercise regimes (aerobic and resistance) on ER stress and mitochondrial biogenesis in the cardiac muscle of middle-aged rats with high-fat-diet-induced obesity.

Comparison of endoplasmic reticulum stress and mitochondrial biogenesis responses after 12 weeks of treadmill running and ladder climbing exercises in the cardiac muscle of middle-aged obese rats

Measurement of Exhaustive Exercise-Induced Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Damage.

Exercise Combined with Rhodiola sacra Supplementation Improves Exercise Capacity and Ameliorates Exhaustive Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage through Enhancement of Mitochondrial Quality Control

IR injury and inflammatory response can substantially activate cell autophagy [6], and autophagy has been demonstrated to play an important role in the pathologic process of cardiac muscle injury [7].

Efficacy and Mechanism of Preoperative Simvastatin Therapy on Myocardial Protection after Extracorporeal Circulation

These pressures, created by the contraction of cardiac muscle in the ventricle walls, control the opening and closing of the semilunar valves and thus the movement of blood from the left and right ventricles into the aorta and pulmonary trunk.

Structural adaptation

The ventricular tissues of water-pipe exposed rats, showed some degree of separation between cardiac muscle fibers, infiltration of lymphocytes, and congestion of blood vessel.

Hookah smoking impairs heart from pumping blood : Study

One of the reasons for this is the fact that cardiac muscle cells do not regenerate.

Israeli Scientists Make Revolutionary Discovery, Regenerate Heart Cells

*An impulse-conducting system of the heart for initiation and propagation of electrical impulses for cardiac muscle contraction It is formed by highly specialized cardiac muscle cells (Purkinje fibers), which generate and conduct electrical impulses rapidly through the heart.

Histology of cardiovascular system

Skeletal and cardiac muscles are collectively referred to as striated muscle.

A Novel Insight into Cardiac Function: Development of a New Model of Spontaneous Oscillatory Contraction

A team of Harvard University researchers has transplanted artificial cardiac muscle cells developed from multipurpose stem cells into six heart-failure patients in the United States in the world's first clinical application of such cells, one of the researchers said Wednesday.

iPS cells used for 1st time in clinical applications in U.S

[1] So Serum enzyme AST and protein troponin I are the best indicators for cardiac muscle injury because of their early rise, i.e.

Importance of cardiac marker enzymes (aspartate transaminase and troponin I) in acute myocardial infarction: a case-control study from south India

Organization of 108 chapters is in sections on cardiac muscle (basic physiology, adaptations and response, myocardial disease); skeletal muscle (basics and adaptations, disease, and therapeutics); and smooth muscle (physiology, heterogeneities, adaptations and response, and disease).