Saitoh Tadashi, Nakajima Takayuki, Kawahara Koichi
Laboratory of Biomedical Control, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0812 Japan.
Jpn J Physiol. 2003 Jun;53(3):247-52. doi: 10.2170/jjphysiol.53.247.
Pathophysiological roles of apoptosis in post-infarction left ventricular (LV) remodeling have not been well characterized. This study showed that TUNEL- or cleaved caspase-3-positive myocytes were identified late after ligation of the left coronary artery in rats, suggesting that apoptotic myocyte death contributed to the morphological change associated with LV remodeling.