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Cardiac hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats was accelerated by denervation of the left cervical sympathetic ganglia. Supersensitivity due to denervation may also exist in cardiac muscles.
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This work was supported by a grant of the Ministry of Education for 1980.
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Matoba, T., Toshima, H., Adachi, K. et al. Cardiac hypertrophy accelerated by left cervical sympathectomy in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Experientia 37, 736–737 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01967952
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