A STUDY OF INOTROPIC MECHANISMS IN THE PAPILLARY MUSCLE PREPARATION
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- 20 January 1959
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 42 (3), 533-561
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.42.3.533
Abstract
The length-tension diagram, the force-velocity relation, the characteristics of the series elasticity, and the duration of the active state have been studied on the papillary muscle preparation of the cat heart, and on other examples of cardiac muscle.Keywords
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