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    Structural and Functional Consequences of Myocardial Collagen Remodeling

    Myocardial fibrillar collagens provide for muscle fiber and cardiac myocyte alignment and impart a tensile strength to the myocardium that maintains ventricular shape and size, and governs tissue stiffness. Th...

    Joseph S. Janicki, Suresh C. Tyagi, Beatriz B. Matsubara… in Cardiac Adaptation and Failure (1994)

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    Myocardial Collagen and Its Functional Role

    Even though normally present in relatively small amounts, myocardial collagen strongly influences ventricular diastolic function. Removal of less than half of the normal amount results in a dilated ventricle w...

    Joseph S. Janicki, Beatriz B. Matsubara… in Interactive Phenomena in the Cardiac System (1993)