Key result
In vivo-like muscle contraction studies expand understanding of compliant tendons but question energy transduction efficiency.
Why the study?
Muscle energetics has expanded into the study of contractions resembling in vivo activity, prompting a summary of these experiments and their impact on understanding muscle function, compliant tendon effects, and energy transduction efficiency.
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Review summary of experiments
Highlights gaps in muscle energy models for cardiac and skeletal applications; leaves open transduction efficiency for targeted experiments.
Muscle energetics has expanded into the study of contractions that resemble in vivo muscle activity. A summary is provided of experiments of this type and what they have added to our understanding of muscle function and effects of compliant tendons, as well as the new questions raised about the efficiency of energy transduction in muscle.
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Curtin et al. (2023) studied this question. Studying in vivo-like muscle contractions has expanded our understanding of muscle function and compliant tendons while raising new questions about energy transduction efficiency.
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