These include acute or chronic adrenergic stimulation, high-fat (or Western) diets, pressure overload, and myocardial infarction models. Using both physiological and pathological model systems, we are ...
Given previously reported histology and morphology 7, we confirmed the changes in a random subset of hearts. Mice were treated according to the guidelines of the Animal Care and Use Committee of ...
Soor, BSc, Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital ... (B) A section of myocardium showing muscle fibre hypertrophy, muscle fibre disarray, and interstitial fibrosis.
Aim Differentiating physiological cardiac hypertrophy from pathology is challenging when the athlete presents with extreme anthropometry. While upper normal limits exist for maximal left ventricular ...