A mathematical model of muscle containing heterogeneous half-sarcomeres exhibits residual force enhancement

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Campbell, Stuart G ^a   Hatfield, P Chris ^a   Campbell, Kenneth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRAIN ENERGY;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CROSS-BRIDGE; FORCE ENHANCEMENT; ISOMETRIC TENSION; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; MUSCLE LENGTHS; RESIDUAL FORCE ENHANCEMENTS; SKELETAL MUSCLE FIBERS; TRANSIENT DECAY; TRANSIENT PERIODS;

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; PREDICTION; SARCOMERE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SARCOMERES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 80053460421     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002156     Document Type: Article

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