The study indicates that it is unlikely there is a significant shortening heat component when mammalian cardiac muscle shortens, which may account for the rapid fall off in total enthalpy output in isotonic contractions at low to medium afterloads.
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Questions existence of shortening heat in mammalian myocardium; leaves open relevance to human cardiac energetics.
Holroyd et al. (1992) studied this question.
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