The Energy of Muscle Contraction. I. Tissue Force and Deformation During Fixed-End Contractions
The Energy of Muscle Contraction. I. Tissue Force and Deformation During Fixed-End Contractions
During contraction the energy of muscle tissue increases due to energy from the hydrolysis of ATP. This energy is distributed across the tissue as strain-energy potentials in the contractile elements, strain-energy potential from the 3D deformation of the base-material tissue (containing cellular and extracellular matrix effects), energy related to changes …