Acute Exercise-Induced Mitochondrial Stress Triggers an Inflammatory Response in the Myocardium via NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation with Mitophagy

Figure 1

The pathological changes of the rat myocardium during acute exercise were observed using HE staining. Compared with those of the RC group (a), more dilatation and congestion of capillaries (the highlight of the black arrows) and inflammatory cell infiltration (the highlight of the white arrows) were observed in the cardiac tissues during the exercise period ((b), (c), and (d)) and the early stage of recovery ((e) and (f)).

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