Cardiac hypertrophy is the abnormal enlargement, or thickening, of the heart muscle, resulting from increases in cardiomyocyte size and changes in other heart muscle components, such as ...

LA Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh is having a cardiac ablation during the offseason. It's a procedure to treat an irregular heart rhythm. The procedure involves creating tiny scars in the heart that ...

Adrenomedullin 2 (AM2) plays critical roles in regulating blood pressure and fluid balance. However, the specific involvement of AM2 in cardiac hypertrophy has not been comprehensively elucidated, ...

Jagdish Butany, MBBS, MS, FRCPC, Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital ... myocardium demonstrates the normal arrangement of cardiac muscle fibres. (Stain: Hematoxylin and Eosin ...

Table 1. Analysis of biochemical data obtained from heart tissues and serum samples. According to the microscopic examination of cardiac muscle tissue, the cardiomyocyte nuclei in the HG control group ...

with greater amounts of viral proteins co-localized with tangles of phosphorylated tau -- one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease pathology -- in brain regions especially vulnerable to ...

Ischemia can produce a rapid and massive increase in the concentration of endogenous catecholamines such as norepinephrine, epinephrine, endothelin, and dopamine in the myocardial interstitial fluid ...