Muscle fibers exhibit emergent mechanical properties reflecting interactions between half-sarcomeres, suggesting that full quantitative understanding requires analysis of a complete fiber system rather than a single half-sarcomere.
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Questions necessity of titin stiffening for fiber stretch; extends multi-sarcomere models but leaves open relevance to human cardiac muscle.
Kenneth S. Campbell (2009) studied this question.
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