Striated Muscle Fibers: Facilitation of Contraction at Short Lengths by Caffeine
- 23 April 1971
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 172 (3981) , 387-388
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.172.3981.387
Abstract
One of the factors evidently responsible for decreasing the force of muscle contraction with shortening is inactivation of the myofibrils in the core of a muscle fiber. Caffeine antagonizes this inactivation and, correspondingly, changes the length-force relationship at short muscle lengths.Keywords
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