The Chinese Herb Yi-Qi-Huo-Xue Protects Cardiomyocyte Function in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy

Figure 2

The normal, diabetic, and treatment groups’ myocardia were stained with hematoxylin eosin. The diabetic cardiac muscle fibers were disordered and many of them had collapsed. The diabetic myocardium showed fibrosis and extensive focal coalescent areas of ischemic myocyte degeneration in the subendocardial and subepicardial regions and inflammatory cell infiltration (Bar = 50 μm).