cardiac muscle atrophy

id: GO:0014899
name: cardiac muscle atrophy
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A process, occurring in the heart, in which a decrease in cell mass and then in heart size occurs due to shrinking of the individual cells. The shrinkage is caused by protein degradation.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0014887cardiac muscle adaptation
GO:0014891striated muscle atrophy