The study demonstrates that short-range elasticity in resting frog muscle fibers is dependent on sarcomere length, suggesting that myosin heads cross-link thick and thin filaments even in the resting state.
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May inform models of resting muscle tone; leaves open relevance to cardiac diastolic stiffness.
Haugen et al. (1981) studied this question.
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