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Because female athletes have less physiological hypertrophy than male athletes, we reasoned that they also might have altered physiological cardiac atrophy after bed rest. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed in 24 healthy young women (32.1 \u00b1 4 yr) to measure left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) mass, volumes, and morphology accurately before and after 60 days of 6\u00b0 head-down tilt (HDT) bed rest. Subjects were matched and then randomly assigned to sedentary bed rest (controls, n = 8) or two treatment groups consisting of 1) exercise training using supine treadmill running within lower body negative pressure plus resistive training ( n = 8), or 2) protein (0.45 g\u00b7kg<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>\u00b7day<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>increase) plus branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) (7.2 g\/day) supplementation ( n = 8). After sedentary bed rest without nutritional supplementation, there were significant reductions in LV (96 \u00b1 26 to 77 \u00b1 25 ml; P = 0.03) and RV volumes (104 \u00b1 33 to 86 \u00b1 25 ml; P = 0.02), LV (2.2 \u00b1 0.2 to 2.0 \u00b1 0.2 g\/kg; P = 0.003) and RV masses (0.8 \u00b1 0.1 to 0.6 \u00b1 0.1 g\/kg; P &lt; 0.001), and the length of the major axis of the LV (90 \u00b1 6 to 84 \u00b1 7 mm. P &lt; 0.001), similar to what has been observed previously in men (8.0%; Perhonen MA, Franco F, Lane LD, Buckey JC, Blomqvist Zerwekh JE, Peshock RM, Weatherall PT, Levine BD. J Appl Physiol 91: 645\u2013653, 2001). In contrast, there were no significant reductions in LV or RV volumes in the exercise-trained group, and the length of the major axis was preserved. Moreover, there were significant increases in LV (1.9 \u00b1 0.4 to 2.3 \u00b1 0.3 g\/kg; P &lt; 0.001) and RV masses (0.7 \u00b1 0.1 to 0.8 \u00b1 0.2 g\/kg; P = 0.002), as well as mean wall thickness (9 \u00b1 2 to 11 \u00b1 1 mm; P = 0.02). The interaction between sedentary and exercise LV and RV masses was highly significant ( P &lt; 0.0001). Protein and BCAA supplementation led to an intermediate phenotype with no change in LV or RV mass after bed rest, but there remained a significant reduction in LV volume (103 \u00b1 14 to 80 \u00b1 16 ml; P = 0.02) and major-axis length (91 \u00b1 5 to 88 \u00b1 7 mm; P = 0.003). All subjects lost an equivalent amount of body mass (3.4 \u00b1 0.2 kg control; 3.1 \u00b1 0.04 kg exercise; 2.8 \u00b1 0.1 kg protein). Cardiac atrophy occurs in women similar to men following sedentary 60 days HDT bed rest. 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