Capillary proliferative activity in myocardium and skeletal muscle of exercised rats
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 43 (2) , 306-307
- https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1977.43.2.306
Abstract
The capillary proliferative activity in heart and skeletal muscle was studied by autoradiography after in vivo injections of [3H]thymidine in swimming exercised rats. Swimming exercise led to hypertrophy of the myocardium and the muscle fibers of the fore- and hindlimbs. When compared with normal controls a highly significant increase in nuclear incorporation of [3H]thymidine was found in the cells of the myocardial capillary walls. No increased incorporation of [3H]thymidine was found in capillary wall cells of fore- and hindlimb muscles. The findings confirm previous observations of a significant neoformation of myocardial capillary blood vessels in swimming-induced cardiac hypertrophy, whereas any capillary neoformation in the hypertrophying skeletal muscles of this experimental model is insignificant.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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