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Myocardium

Known as: Muscle, Heart, Myocardial Tissue, Muscles, Cardiac 
The muscle tissue of the HEART. It is composed of striated, involuntary muscle cells (MYOCYTES, CARDIAC) connected to form the contractile pump to… 
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Broader (5)

Cardiac wall structureMuscleMuscle, StriatedSkeletal muscle structure

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Reticular tissue

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Review
1982
Review
1982
Heat, mechanics, and myosin ATPase in normal and hypertrophied heart muscle.
: In this paper we review our previous work on the myothermic economy of isometric force production in compensated cardiac… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Measurement of free magnesium in perfused and ischemic arrested heart muscle. A quantitative phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance and multiequilibria analysis.
The concentration of intracellular free Mg2+ in perfused, beating guinea pig hearts has been estimated on the basis of the Mg2… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Autoradiographic method for measuring the ischemic myocardium at risk: effects of verapamil on infarct size aftr experimental coronary artery occlusion.
Investigation of the efficacy of pharmacologic agents affecting myocardial infarct size after coronary artery occlusion is… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Active and inactive forms of pyruvate dehydrogenase in rat liver. Effect of starvation and refeeding and of insulin treatment on pyruvate-dehydrogenase interconversion.
Active form and total activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase were measured in rat liver homogenates. The activity obtained… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Thyroid hormone induced changes in the enzyme activity pattern of energy-supplying metabolism of fast (white), slow (red), and heart muscle of the rat.
Influeces of thyroid hormones onthe activity levels of glyucogen phosphorylase, hexokinase, trisoephosphate dehydrogenease… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
THE ISOLATION AND PROPERTIES OF CARDIAC RIBOSOMES AND POLYSOMES.
1. A method is described by which good yields of ribosomes and polysomes free of contamination by submitochondrial fragments can… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
THE QUANTIFICATION OF MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTILITY IN DOG AND MAN.
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
GENETIC EVIDENCE FOR THE SUBUNIT STRUCTURE OF LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE ISOZYMES.
The lactate dehydrogenases commonly occur in from one to five molecular forms (isozymes) in the various tissues of an animal… 
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
RECONSTITUTION OF RESPIRATORY CHAIN ENZYME SYSTEMS. XII. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE RECONSTITUTION OF THE SUCCINATE OXIDASE SYSTEM FROM HEART MUSCLE.
Highly Cited
1953
Highly Cited
1953
Myocardial Carbohydrate Metabolism in Normal Dogs, with Effects of Hyperglycemia and Starvation
Myocardial metabolism of Nembutalized normal intact dogs was studied with the aid of the coronary sinus catheterization technic…