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Cardiomyocytes and muscle fibers, with stripes. Innervated by vegetative nerves, it is an involuntary muscle with transverse lines, capable of excitatory contractions. It is short cylindrical and has branches, and its nucleus is located in the center of the cell, usually only one. The ends of each myocardial fiber branch can be connected to form a network of muscle fibers.
As basic types of myocardial cell lesions there can be distinguished segmental and subsegmental contractures, intracellular myocytolysis, and primary granular disintegration. Animal experiments have proved that the earliest morphological manifestations of acute lesions of myocardial cells (at the optical microscopic level) are myofibrillar changes detectable by polarized-light microscopy.