NDLI: Energy transfer during stress relaxation of contracting frog muscle fibres

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Author	Mantovani, M. Heglund, N. C. Cavagna, G. A.
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	A contracting muscle resists stretching with a force greater than the force it can exert at a constant length, T o. If the muscle is kept active at the stretched length, the excess tension disappears, at first rapidly and then more slowly (stress relaxation). The present study is concerned with the first, fast tension decay. In particular, it is still debated if and to what extent the fast tension decay after a ramp stretch involves a conservation of the elastic energy stored during stretching into cross-bridge states of higher chemical energy. Single muscle fibres of Rana temporaria and Rana esculenta were subjected to a short ramp stretch (∼15 nm per half-sarcomere at either 1.4 or 0.04 sarcomere lengths s−1) on the plateau of the force-length relation at temperatures of 4 and 14°C. Immediately after the end of the stretch, or after discrete time intervals of fixed-end contraction and stress relaxation at the stretched length (Δt isom= 0.5–300 ms), the fibre was released against a force ∼T o. Fibre and sarcomere stiffness during the elastic recoil to T o (phase 1) and the subsequent transient shortening against T o (phase 2), which is expression of the work enhancement by stretch, were measured after different Δt isom and compared with the corresponding fast tension decay during Δt isom. The amplitude of fast tension decay is large after the fast stretch, and small or nil after the slow stretch. Two exponential terms are necessary to fit the fast tension decay after the fast stretch at 4°C, whereas one is sufficient in the other cases. The rate constant of the dominant exponential term (0.1–0.2 ms−1 at 4°C) increases with temperature with a temperature coefficient (Q 10) of ∼3. After fast stretch, the fast tension decay during Δt isom is accompanied in both species and at both temperatures by a corresponding increase in the amplitude of phase 2 shortening against T o after Δt isom: a maximum of ∼5 nm per half-sarcomere is attained when the fast tension decay is almost complete, i.e. 30 ms after the stretch at 4°C and 10 ms after the stretch at 14°C. After slow stretch, when fast tension decay is small or nil, the increase in phase 2 shortening is negligible. The increase in phase 2 work during fast tension decay (ΔW out) is a constant fraction of the elastic energy simultaneously set free by the recoil of the undamped elastic elements. ΔW out is accompanied by a decrease in stiffness, indicating that it is not due to a greater number of cross-bridges. It is concluded that, during the fast tension decay following a fast ramp stretch, a transfer of energy occurs from the undamped elastic elements to damped elements within the sarcomeres by a temperature-dependent mechanism with a dominant rate constant consistent with the theory proposed by A. F. Huxley and R. M. Simmons in 1971.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7793.2001.00923.x
Ending Page	939
Page Count	17
Starting Page	923
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00223751
e-ISSN	14697793
Journal	The Journal of Physiology
Issue Number	Pt 3
Volume Number	537
Language	English
Publisher	Blackwell Science Inc
Publisher Date	2001-12-15
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Blackwell Science Inc
Subject Keyword	Physiology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Physiology Sports Science

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