Increased compliance in diaphragm muscle of the cardiomyopathic Syrian hamster
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Increased compliance in diaphragm muscle of the cardiomyopathic Syrian hamster.
We investigated the hypothesis that diaphragm compliance was abnormal in cardiomyopathic Syrian hamsters (CSH), an experimental model of myopathy. The passive elastic properties of isolated diaphragm muscles were analyzed at both the muscle and sarcomere levels. We used the following passive exponential relationship between stress (sigma) and strain (epsilon): sigma = (Eo/beta) (ebetaepsilon - ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Physiology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 8750-7587,1522-1601
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1998.85.5.1762