Energetics of Shortening Muscles in Twitches and Tetanic Contractions : I. A Reinvestigation of Hill's Concept of the Shortening Heat
Shortening heat was defined by Hill as the "difference between heat produced when shortening occurs and that produced in a similar contraction without shortening." For the tetanus the "similar contraction" was an isometric one at or near lo. By contrast, in a twitch the "si...
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The Rockefeller University Press
1973
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2226140/ |