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. 2013 Nov 27;306(4):R222–R233. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00382.2013

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4.

A: typical time course of intensity of contracting MLCK phosphorylated psoas muscle myofibril. Ch3 (red) and Ch2 (black) are the fluorescence intensities polarized parallel (I) and perpendicular (I) to the myofibrillar axis, respectively. The direction of excitation polarization is ‖ to the myofibrillar axis. The gate time was set to 0 ns. B: same time course but with the gate set to 7.36 ns. Note the decrease of intensity due to elimination of light scattering. C: polarization of fluorescence of ungated (blue) and gated (green) at 7.36-ns signals. To emphasize the differences, the ungated signal is plotted on top of the gated signal in D. Laser intensity was 0.2–0.4 μW.