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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2008 Oct 17;46(1):39–46. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2008.10.004

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Experimental Records. Representative force (top panel) and muscle length (bottom panel) records for a left-ventricular preparation immersed in solutions with different free Ca2+ concentrations. Activated preparations are disproportionately stiff for small movements. This behavior is attributed to the muscle’s short-range response.