title: The number and some other characteristics of isolated human ventricular cardiomyocytes under pathological conditions.
abstract: Using a modified method for alkalic dissociation, isolated ventricular cardiomyocytes were obtained from eight patients who had died of different diseases. The absolute number of cardiomyocytes, counted in the Fuchs-Rosenthal chamber, ranged between 1.10 x 10(9) and 3.25 x 10(9) in the left ventricle, and between 0.58 x 10(9) and 1.42 x 10(9) in the right ventricle depending on myocardial mass. Mean volume of cells ranged between 75 x 10(3) and 344 x 10(3) microns3, and the content of polynuclear, predominantly binucleated, cardiomyocytes amounted to 14 to 49%. An increase in ventricular myocardium mass was associated with an increase in cardiomyocyte volume. A negative correlation was demonstrated between the absolute number of cardiomyocytes on the one hand, and their mean volume and proportion of polynuclear cells on the other.
authors.affiliation: L.A. Oganesian Institute of Cardiology, Yerevan, USSR.
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Shperling
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Arakelian
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002452:Cell Count; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*