Changes in myocardium ultrastructure in a model of hyperalimentation in geese
Bózner, A.; Baláz, V.; Takácová-Dudykevicová, L.; Szigetiová, A.
Ceskoslovenska Patologie 20(2): 103-110
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 1210-7875 PMID: 6744441 Document Number: 227068
Ivage geese were fattened for 6 weeks; 3-5 weeks later, with diminished food intake, they developed degenerative ultrastructural changes of the myocardium: frequent myelin-like bodies, fragmentation and sometimes contractive bundles of myofibrils, lipid droplets, nuclear lobulation and focal cytolysis were observed. Adaptive changes included hypermetabolic mitochondria with many crists, dilated endoplasmic reticulum and plenty of pinocytotic vacuoles in capillary endothelium.