Contractility of Right Ventricular Myocardium in Male and Female Rats during Physiological and Pathological Hypertrophy


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Abstract

Sex differences in the morphogenesis and adaptation of the mechanisms controlling myocardium contractility during physiological and pathological hypertrophy of the right ventricle were demonstrated in mature rats. The study revealed sex-dependent effects of physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy on the coefficient of variation of the cardiomyocyte diameter, length-dependent control of the contractile force, and the maximum velocity of isotonic shortening.

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Yu. L. Protsenko

Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: lisin.ruslan@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Ekaterinburg

A. A. Balakin

Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: lisin.ruslan@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Ekaterinburg

D. A. Kuznetsov

Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: lisin.ruslan@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Ekaterinburg

A. G. Kursanov

Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; B. N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University

Email: lisin.ruslan@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Ekaterinburg; Ekaterinburg

R. V. Lisin

Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences

Author for correspondence.
Email: lisin.ruslan@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Ekaterinburg

E. A. Mukhlynina

Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; B. N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University

Email: lisin.ruslan@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Ekaterinburg; Ekaterinburg

O. N. Lookin

Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; B. N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University

Email: lisin.ruslan@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Ekaterinburg; Ekaterinburg


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