The Recovery of Contractile Ability Following a Contracture in Skeletal Muscle

When the potassium in Ringer's solution is increased above 25 mM, frog skeletal muscle contracts and then spontaneously relaxes. Elevated external potassium will not produce tension again until the stimulating potassium has been removed and a recovery process has taken place. The kinetics of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Curtis, Brian A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 1964
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2195358/