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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 66, 287-302, Copyright © 1975 by The Rockefeller University Press
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FJ Julian and MR Sollins
Single frog skeletal muscle fibers were attached to a servo motor and force transducer by knotting the tendons to pieces of wire at the fiver insertions. Small amplitude, high frequency sinusoidal length changes were then applied during tetani while fibers contracted both isometrically and isotonically at various constant velocities. The amlitude of the resulting force oscillation provides a relative measure of muscle stiffness. It is shown from an analysis of the transient force responses observed after sudden changes in muscle length applied both at full and reduced overlap and during the rising phase of short tetani that these responses can be explained on the basis of varying numbers of cross bridges attached at the time of the length step. Therefore, the stiffness measured by the high frequency legth oscillation method is taken to be directly proportional to the number of cross bridges attached to thin filament sittes. It is found that muscle stiffness measured in this way falls with increasing shortening velocity, but not as rapidly as the force. The results suggest that at the maximum velocity of shortening, when the external force is zero, muscle stiffness is still substantial. The findings are interpreted in terms of a specific model for muscle contraction in which the maximum velocity of shortening under zero external load arises when a force balance is attained between attached cross bridges somr interpretations of these results are also discussed.
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