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Muscular dynamics and muscular efficiency: I. The isometric length-tension diagram of striated skeletal muscle

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The isometric length-tension diagram for individual fibers and for whole muscle is considered, and it is proposed that the tensionp may be represented for any muscle whose fibers are parallel and not in series, in the form

$$p = f\left( x \right) + \beta \phi \left( {\alpha ,l,x} \right),$$

where the form of ϕ is known and the same for all muscles, the parameters α and ł are experimentally measurable,x represents the length, β the degree of activity of the muscle, and the form off(x) varies from muscle to muscle.

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Householder, A.S. Muscular dynamics and muscular efficiency: I. The isometric length-tension diagram of striated skeletal muscle. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 7, 5–13 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478254

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