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n. - One of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber.

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  • When the shape changes a calcium ion is let through the S.R. into the myofibril causing the filaments to get excited causing them to contract.
  • Occasional myocytes in both ventricles showed hypereosinophilia and loss of myofibril structure without associated inflammation (changes regarded as agonal rather than...
  • At 36 weeks of age, Tg mice (the group in transition from hypertrophy to HF) show significant degenerative changes in cardiomyocytes, including swelling of mitochondria,...
  • However, as the disease progresses, cardiomyocytes show deterioration in some mitochondrial as well as myofibril features, evidenced by swelling of mitochondria,...
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