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March 1, 1991The Journal of General PhysiologyOpen Access

Shortening velocity and power output of skinned muscle fibers from mammals having a 25,000-fold range of body mass.

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CSChun Y. SeowUniversity of British Columbia
Lincoln E. Ford
Lincoln E. FordHeart Failure / Cardiomyopathy

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Muscle velocity scaling warrants no clinical practice changes; leaves open allometric mechanisms in human cardiac versus skeletal muscle.

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Seow et al. (1991) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a86da762527c72a71a2437dhttps://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.97.3.541
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