Myocardium

"Myocardium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The muscle tissue of the HEART. It is composed of striated, involuntary muscle cells (MYOCYTES, CARDIAC) connected to form the contractile pump to generate blood flow.

Descriptor ID	D009206
MeSH Number(s)	A02.633.580 A07.541.704 A10.690.552.750
Concept/Terms	Myocardium Myocardium Cardiac Muscle Muscle, Heart Heart Muscle Heart Muscles Muscles, Heart Myocardia Muscle, Cardiac Cardiac Muscles Muscles, Cardiac

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Myocardium".

Anatomy [A]
Musculoskeletal System [A02]
Muscles [A02.633]
Myocardium [A02.633.580]
Cardiovascular System [A07]
Heart [A07.541]
Myocardium [A07.541.704]
Tissues [A10]
Muscles [A10.690]
Muscle, Striated [A10.690.552]
Myocardium [A10.690.552.750]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Myocardium".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Myocardium".

Myocardium
Papillary Muscles

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Bar chart showing 197 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2005 and 2012 and 2013 and 2015 and 2016

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	3	0	3
1998	0	1	1
1999	2	2	4
2000	2	1	3
2001	3	4	7
2002	5	3	8
2003	4	4	8
2004	4	5	9
2005	8	4	12
2006	5	1	6
2007	2	4	6
2008	6	1	7
2009	3	3	6
2010	4	3	7
2011	7	3	10
2012	6	6	12
2013	9	3	12
2014	3	2	5
2015	7	5	12
2016	8	4	12
2017	5	4	9
2018	2	1	3
2019	5	1	6
2020	8	2	10
2021	1	3	4
2022	0	3	3
2023	0	4	4
2024	1	2	3
2025	3	2	5

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Lee KCY, Williams AL, Fujimoto A, Gerschenson M, Schuller C, Polgar N, Alfulaij N, Shimada BK, Seale LA, Shohet RV. PKM2 is a key regulator of cardiac lipid metabolism in mice. Mitochondrion. 2025 Nov; 85:102070.

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Warren J, Cheng D, Crawford N, Jones B, Ng RL, Alafaci A, Stub D, Lew P, Taylor AJ. Improved diagnosis of COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis with cardiac scarring identified by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Open Heart. 2025 Jul 18; 12(2).

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Papapostolou S, Iles L, O'Brien J, Gutman SJ, Ellims A, Hare J, Stub D, Moir S, Taylor AJ. The Antifibrotic Effects of Eplerenone in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JACC Heart Fail. 2025 Jul; 13(7):102415.

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Perales JA, Lawan A, Bajpeyi S, Han SM, Bennett AM, Min K. MAP Kinase Phosphatase-5 Deficiency Improves Endurance Exercise Capacity. Cells. 2025 03 11; 14(6).

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Lee KCY, Williams AL, Hara A, Khadka VS, Hayashi J, Shohet RV. Loss of PKM2 dysregulates inflammatory signaling in the infarcted murine heart. Physiol Rep. 2025 Jan; 13(1):e70193.

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Caudal A, Liu Y, Pang PD, Maison DP, Nakasuka K, Feng J, Schwarzer-Sperber HS, Schwarzer R, Moffatt E, Henrich TJ, Padmanabhan A, Connolly AJ, Wu JC, Tseng ZH. Transcriptomic Profiling of Human Myocardium at Sudden Death to Define?Vulnerable Substrate for Lethal?Arrhythmias. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2025 Jan; 11(1):143-155.

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Lee KCY, Williams AL, Wang L, Xie G, Jia W, Fujimoto A, Gerschenson M, Shohet RV. PKM2 regulates metabolic flux and oxidative stress in the murine heart. Physiol Rep. 2024 Sep; 12(17):e70040.

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Hajri T, Gharib M, Fungwe T, M'Koma A. Very low-density lipoprotein receptor mediates triglyceride-rich lipoprotein-induced oxidative stress and insulin resistance. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2024 10 01; 327(4):H733-H748.

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Segan L, Chieng D, Sugumar H, Voskoboinik A, Ling LH, Costello B, Azzopardi S, Nderitu Z, Parameswaran R, Amerena J, McLellan AJ, Lee G, Morton J, Joseph S, Wong M, Taylor A, Kalman JM, Kistler PM, Prabhu S. The impact of age on ablation outcomes in AF-mediated cardiomyopathy. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2023 10; 34(10):2065-2075.

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Hara A, Tallquist MD. Fibroblast and Immune Cell Cross-Talk in Cardiac Fibrosis. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2023 06; 25(6):485-493.

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