Acetate suppresses myocardial contraction via the short-chain fatty acid receptor GPR43 [PDF]
The heart has high energy requirements, with an estimated 40%–60% of myocardial ATP production derived from the oxidation of fatty acids under physiological conditions.
Xuan Jiang +10 more
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Speckle tracking echocardiography analyses of myocardial contraction efficiency predict response for cardiac resynchronization therapy [PDF]
Background In patients with left ventricular (LV) dysssynchrony, contraction that doesn’t fall into ejection period (LVEj) results in a waste of energy due to inappropriate contraction timing, which was now widely treated by cardiac resynchronization ...
Zibire Fulati +6 more
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Modulation of Myocardial Contraction by Peroxynitrite [PDF]
Peroxynitrite is a potent oxidant that is quickly emerging as a crucial modulator of myocardial function. This review will focus on the regulation of myocardial contraction by peroxynitrite during health and disease, with a specific emphasis on ...
Mark eKohr +3 more
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Myocardial Contraction during the Diastolic Isovolumetric Period: Analysis of Longitudinal Strain by Means of Speckle Tracking Echocardiography [PDF]
Background: According to the ventricular myocardial band model, the diastolic isovolumetric period is a contraction phenomenon. Our objective was to employ speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) to analyze myocardial deformation of the left ventricle ...
Vicente Mora +10 more
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Regulation of myocardial contraction as revealed by intracellular Ca2+ measurements using aequorin [PDF]
Of the ions involved in myocardial function, Ca2+ is the most important. Ca2+ is crucial to the process that allows myocardium to repeatedly contract and relax in a well-organized fashion; it is the process called excitation–contraction coupling.
Satoshi Kurihara, Norio Fukuda
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Myocardial contraction-relaxation coupling
Since the pioneering work of Henry Pickering Bowditch in the late 1800s to early 1900s, cardiac muscle contraction has remained an intensely studied topic for several reasons. The heart is located centrally in our body, and its pumping motion demands the attention of the observer.
P. Janssen
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Myocardial contraction fraction predicts mortality in the oldest old [PDF]
Background: People over the age of 85 are the world's most rapidly growing age group. Ejection fraction (EF) may be limited prognostically in this population and myocardial contraction fraction (MCF) may be more accurate.
David Leibowitz +6 more
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Conceptualizing myocardial contractility as an emergent property that characterizes myocardial contraction [PDF]
Myocardial contractility (MC) is a fundamental concept that is widely used to describe the cardiac muscles’ mechanical function, yet its definitions in textbooks and literature are vague, inconsistent, and often contradictory.
Serena Y. Kuang, Gorune Geloian
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Myocardial contraction fraction predicts mortality for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. [PDF]
The myocardial contraction fraction (MCF: stroke volume to myocardial volume) is a novel volumetric measure of left ventricular myocardial shortening.
Liao H, Wang Z, Zhao L, Chen X, He S.
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A simple phenomenological approach for myocardial contraction: formulation, parameter sensitivity study and applications in organ level simulations [PDF]
Contraction in myocardial tissue is the result of a complex process through which chemical energy on the cellular level is converted into the mechanical energy needed to circulate blood throughout the body.
Barış Cansız +2 more
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