Morphometric Study of Early Postnatal Development in the Left and Right Ventricular Myocardium of the RatI. Hypertrophy, Hyperplasia, and Binucleation of Myocytes
作者:
PIERO ANVERSA,
GIORGIO OLIVETTI,
ALDEN LOUD,
期刊:
Circulation Research
(OVID Available online 1980)
卷期:
Volume 46,
issue 4
页码: 495-502
ISSN:0009-7330
年代: 1980
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
We reviewed the absolute amd differential growths of the myocyte populations in the left(L) and right (R) ventricular myocardium morphometrically from 1 to 5 days and from 5 to 11 days after birth. From 1 to 11 days hypertrophy of the average myocyte in the ventricles was (L) 2.7- and (R)2.4-fold, and myocyte proliferation was (L) 2.0- and (R) 1.2-fold. Mean cell volume, cell length, and percent binucleation of cardiac myocytes were similar in both ventricles at 1, 5, and 11 days of age. During this period, average myocyte length increased 2-fold (12 sarcomere lengths), and the percentage of binucleate myocytes increased approximately from 2.7 to 17 to 48%. Myocyte hypertrophy from 1 to 5 days resulted mainly from an increase in the volume of cytoplasm per nucleus and from 5 to 11 days from the accumulation of binucleate cells. No differences were observed in the characteristics of epicardial and endocardial myocytes in either ventricle up to 11 days of age. The 61% greater proliferation of myocytes in the left ventricle was the principal basis for the development of a 2-fold difference in ventricular weight gains: (L) 6.2- and (R) 3.4-fold. No increase in right ventricular midwall thickness was observed, in contrast to a 2.7-fold increase of the left ventricle. It was concluded that, asa result of the circulatory changes occurring shortly after birth, right ventricular growth is analogous to eccentric hypertrophy, whereas left ventricular growth represents a combination of eccentric and concentric hypertrophy.Circ Res 46: 495-502, 1980
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