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J Appl Physiol 78: 1303-1311, 1995;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 78, Issue 4 1303-1311, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society


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Exercise-induced cardiac hypertrophy is associated with an increased myocardial compliance

A. J. Woodiwiss and G. R. Norton
Department of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Left ventricular (LV) chamber and myocardial wall compliance were investigated in rats with exercise-induced cardiac hypertrophy. Voluntary exercise training was performed on running wheels. After 16 wk of exercise training, cardiac performance was measured in anesthetized open-chest ventilated rats. LV end-diastolic performance was calculated from both short-axis external diameter and long-axis segmental length measurements. Exercise-trained rats developed significant LV hypertrophy (1.03 +/- 0.02 g) compared with control rats (0.91 +/- 0.03 g; P < 0.01). The physiological hypertrophy was associated with an increased LV wall thickness-to-internal radius ratio consistent with a concentric geometry. LV end-diastolic stiffness (slope of the linearized LV end-diastolic pressure-strain relationship) was decreased in both the short (P < 0.02) and long (P < 0.02) axis of LV as a result of exercise training. The LV end-diastolic chamber stiffness (slope of the linearized LV end-diastolic pressure-volume relationship) was also decreased in the exercised group (P < 0.05). The decreased chamber stiffness occurred as a consequence of a decrease in the regional myocardial wall elastic stiffness (slope of the linearized LV end-diastolic stress-strain relationship; P < 0.05). Thus an increased LV wall thickness as a result of exercise-induced LV hypertrophy is associated with an enhanced ventricular chamber compliance, which in turn is attributed to a decrease in the diastolic stiffness of the myocardial wall.


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