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One of the difficulties with alchemy and this new age of cardiac myocyte biology is related to defining a rigorous set of criteria that allow one to make the claim that the cell type of interest is truly a cardiac progenitor or stem cell and is acquiring a fully differentiated phenotype [4].
The furazolidone-induced turkey model is a well characterizedexperimental model of dilated cardiomyopathy with features verysimilar to those found in human heart failure [ 19 20 21 22 ] .Decreased contractile function (reduced fractional shortening ofthe left ventricle) and morphological changes (increased heart volumes,left ventricular dilatation, and myocyte hypertrophy) are characteristic featuresof this model [ 21 22 ] .
These observations,and the results from several animal models, demonstrate that apoptoticcells are present in failing hearts, suggesting that apoptosis mightbe a mechanism involved, at least in part, in the progression ofheart failure and the reduction of myocyte mass.
This observation represents animportant finding in demonstrating the effectiveness of a cardiovasculardrug to protect against continual cardiac myocyte apoptosis in failinghearts in vivo . Furthermore, the inhibition of apoptosisby carvedilol was accompanied by signs of improvement in left ventricularfunction and heart size (i.e.
With the clear demonstration that cardiac myocyte apoptosis ispresent in our heart failure model strategies for prevention ofapoptosis can be tested.
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