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Based on mechanical, biochemical and electron microscopic studies performed in the same stage of experimental cardiac hypertrophy, an attempt is made to define the significance of individual factors responsible for the alterations in myocardial function. Using swimming rats, it is demonstrated that a loadinduced increase in cardiac mass is not necessarily connected with an impairment of contractile capability on a cellular level. Yet, also, the reduction of specific ATPase activity and unloaded shortening velocity in pressure-induced hypertrophy (Goldblatt rats; aortic stenosis) seems to be the expression of adaptation rather than of cellular damage, at least in the earlier stages. Although there are distinct indications of alterations in Ca-dependent activation and deactivation, in the Goldblatt model electromechanical coupling does not seem to be the main cause of altered contraction parameters. The correlation between specific ATPase activity of actomyosin and unloaded shortening velocity as well as the persistance of decrease in shortening velocity, also under optimal electromechanical coupling conditions, point to an inner relationship between the two values. A discrepancy between unloaded shortening velocity on the one hand and developed tension on the other is mainly due to an increased content of contractile structures. In later stages, an increased connective tissue content influences both isometric and isotonic parameters.
Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Dedicated to Prof. A. Fleckenstein, Freiburg, on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
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Jacob, R., Ebrecht, G., Kämmereit, A., Medugorac, I., Wendt-Gallitelli, M.F. (1977). Myocardial function in different models of cardiac hypertrophy. An attempt at correlating mechanical, biochemical, and morphological parameters. In: Jacob, R. (eds) The Hypertrophied Heart. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85299-2_11
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