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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Numer Method Biomed Eng. 2013 Jun 24;29(10):1104–1133. doi: 10.1002/cnm.2565

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Mechanical contraction in a human ventricular cardiomyocyte. Temporal evolution of the active force Fact throughout an excitation cycle. The rapid increase in the intracellular calcium concentration cCa initiates a rapid increase in the active force. After reaching its peak value, the force gradually returns to zero.