MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SMOOTH MUSCLE .2. ACTIVE STATE
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SMOOTH MUSCLE .2. ACTIVE STATE
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DOI:
10.1152/ajplegacy.1971.221.5.1250
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发表时间:
1971-01-01
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SIEGMAN, MJ
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GORDON, AR;SIEGMAN, MJ
METHODSPreparation of tissues and solutions. The preparation of rabbit taenia coli segments for the mechanical studies was described in ref. 9a. Identical procedures were followed in this study.Experimental procedures. Following a Z-hr equilibration period, the optimum muscle length, I,, was determined as described in the accompanying paper. The arrangement of the apparatus was such that one end of the muscle was secured to an isometric force transducer(Grass FT-10) and the other to the armature shaft of a large galvanometer (Grass oscillograph). Two micrometer stops were used to adjust the muscle length or limit the excursion of the armature. The quick-stretch technique of Hill (12) was used to determine the time course of the active state. Briefly, this method involves the application of a quick stretch to the muscle following a single shock. The muscles were electrically stimulated from two platinum-platinum chloride electrodes placed 5 mm apart on either side and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the muscle strip. The quick stretch (averaging 2 mm/set) was imposed by passing a dc current through the armature coil from a constant-current source (Grass CCU-1). The amount of stretch was varied by adjusting the position of the micrometer stops and the time of application of the stretch by varying the delay on a timing device which drove the galvanometer. Three shocks were delivered 100 set before each determination, as prescribed by Hill (12). At preset intervals after the application of a single supramaximal dc shock (6-9 v, 5-10 msec duration), the muscle was stretched until following the shock the stretch produced a tension which ran horizontally for 3-5 set before decaying toward the base-line tension (ie, the passive tension at length lo). The interval between the shock and the stretch was increased and the procedure repeated to obtain the time course of the active state. All experiments were done at 22 C in order to eliminate spontaneous activity (9). Statistical analysis. The tension and time data for each