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What is the Fenn-effect?

Muscle is a regulatory engine the energy output of which is governed by the load

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  1. Department of Physiology and the Los Angeles County Heart Association Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles

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This article is dedicated to Wallace O. Fenn at the occasion of his birthday. It is also written in commemoration of the arrival of H. P. Bowditch in Leipzig a century ago, whereby the ascent of scientific American physiology was initiated.

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Mommaerts, W.F.H.M. What is the Fenn-effect?. Naturwissenschaften 57, 326–330 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01173104

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