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Myocardial Disease Associated with the Feeding of Unsaturated Vegetable Oil, Rat

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Cardiovascular and Musculoskeletal Systems

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The heart may be symmetrically enlarged, and rounded. In the initial stage of lipidosis, the myocardium is pale (Fig. 28).

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  1. Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, ILSI Research Foundation, 1126 Sixteenth Street, N.W., 20036, Washington D.C., USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Medizinische Hochschule Honnover, Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, W-3000, Hannover 61, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M.D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

  3. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, 01772, Southborough, MA, USA

    Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

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Johnston, K.M., Grice, H.C. (1991). Myocardial Disease Associated with the Feeding of Unsaturated Vegetable Oil, Rat. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Cardiovascular and Musculoskeletal Systems. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76533-9_6

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