Bundled units of fascicles, made up of muscle fibers or muscle cells. Each muscle fiber is divided into myofibrils that contain thick (myosin) and thin (actin) myofilaments. The myofilaments give ...

Polarimetric second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy is a label-free ultrastructural imaging technique that is applied to study molecular organization in striated muscle structure. Wild type OreR ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a disease resulting in increased right ventricular (RV) afterload and RV remodeling. PAH results in altered RV structure and function at different scales from ...

A total of 198 consecutive patients with a clinically stable heart, angiographically proven chronic coronary artery disease, a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤ 40%, and heart failure ...