Abstract
Summary: To determine the effects of exercise in experimental autoimmune myocarditis, Guinea pigs immunised with heterologous heart protein (rat heart), Freund's complete adjuvant, and pertussis vaccine (treated group) were exercised on a treadmill for a total of 11 weeks and compared with non-exercise treated animals. In vivo heart rates and pressures, in vitro left ventricular pressure-volume relations, myocardial histology, circulating antiheart antibody, and in vitro lymphocyte stimulation were determined. Exercise resulted in increased cardiac dilatation in treated animals as assessed by in vitro left ventricular pressure-volume relations compared with non-exercise treated animals (at 8 mmHg 1.41(0.17) ml·kg-1 vs 1.20(0.17) ml·kg-1 respectively, p
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 217-222 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Cardiovascular Research |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1987 |
Keywords
- Animal model
- Autoimmune
- Exercise
- Myocarditis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Applied Mathematics
- Physiology (medical)
- Physiology
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine