REPAIR AND REORGANIZATION OF MINCED CARDIAC-MUSCLE IN ADULT NEWT (NOTOPHTHALMUS-VIRIDESCENS)
REPAIR AND REORGANIZATION OF MINCED CARDIAC-MUSCLE IN ADULT NEWT (NOTOPHTHALMUS-VIRIDESCENS)
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DOI:
10.1002/jmor.1051550307
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
OBERPRILLER, JO
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作者:
BADER, D;OBERPRILLER, JO
Studies of the response of adult mammalian and amphibian ventricle to injury have indicated the formation of a connective tissue scar in the place of the wounded or amputated muscle. Amphibian myocytes adjacent to a wound surface, unlike mammalian myocytes, have a proliferative capacity. In the present study, a minced cardiac muscle graft was placed into the adult newt [N. viridescens] ventricle in order to increase the number of myocytes near a wound surface. With such an increased number of reactive myocytes, it was thought a new wall consisting primarily of muscle might be formed. One-sixteenth to one-eighth of the ventricular apex was removed, minced and returned to the amputation surface of the ventricle. General histological and autoradiographic studies were conducted on 2 sham-operated animals and on 5 experimental animals which were killed at 5, 10, 20, 30, 50 and 70 days after surgery. Major events of the repair and reorganization of minced cardiac muscle included blood clot formation followed by necrosis of the blood clot and much of the muscle graft. By 10 days, an apparent coalescence of muscle fragments and continuity of ventricular and graft lumina were observed, although the graft area never formed an integrated unit with the wounded ventricular wall. The peak of mitotic activity (3.19%) and thymidine labeling (28.1%) of graft cells, including many cells which resembled cardiac myocytes, was observed at 20 days. At 30 days, the graft was observed as a continuous wall composed primarily of muscle fibers. Several 30-, 50- and 70-day grafts had rhythmic contractions. Amphibian cardiac muscle apparently has histogenetic and proliferative capacities not attributable to mammalian cardiac muscle.