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The succeeding chapters deal with the biochemistry and clinical utilization of cardiac markers. This chapter deals with the source of these markers as they are released into the blood following injury. To appreciate this, a knowledge of cell anatomy at the ultrastructural level is necessary. Over the past 50 yr, two technologies have evolved that have enabled us to understand cell structure by providing details not possible with the light microscope. These investigative tools are the electron microscope (EM*) and X-ray diffraction. The former has elucidated the substructure of muscle fibers as seen with routine histology (or polarizing optics), whereas the latter has given us knowledge about the molecular structure of the muscular contractile apparatus (1,2).
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McCord, R.G., Clark, A.W. (1998). Ultrastructure of the Striated Muscle Cell. In: Wu, A.H.B. (eds) Cardiac Markers. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1806-7_5
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