Population
Libellula pulchella dragonflies (teneral and mature flight muscle)
Comparison
Adult maturation vs Teneral (newly emerged adult) flight muscle
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Maturational Ca2+ sensitivity shifts in insect muscle leave open troponin T effects on vertebrate cardiac contractility; hypothesis-generating.
Maturational changes in troponin T isoform expression in dragonfly flight muscle alter Ca2+-sensitivity and twitch kinetics, enhancing force production at high temperatures.
Fitzhugh et al. (1997) studied this question.
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