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Morphometric Studies on Hearts and Coronary Arteries of the Fetal and Adult Oxen
Author(s) -
Ocal M. K.,
Cakir A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
anatomia, histologia, embryologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1439-0264
pISSN - 0340-2096
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0264.1993.tb00224.x
Subject(s) - fetus , coronary arteries , cardiology , medicine , artery , left coronary artery , fetal heart , anatomy , pregnancy , biology , genetics
Summary Quantitative investigations were performed on hearts and coronary arteries of 10 fetal and 7 adult oxen. Relative heart weights were 0.42 % in adults and 0.80 % in fetuses. An interesting observation was that left coronary artery predominated by a ratio of 2.55 in adults and 1.41 in fetuses although the percentage of left ventricular weight was similar in both adults and fetuses. Linear regressions were also determined between ventricular weights and coronary arterial diameters.