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Influence of temperature on isometric contractions of rabbit atria during inotropic interventions.

Inotropic effects on strips of left atria promoted by 1-epinephrine, increase in frequency, post-extrasystolic potentiation, and by increase in extracellular calcium concentration were studied at 28 C and 36 C. The results show that at lower temperature the resulting changes in temporal parameters (activation time, deactivation time and duration above 10% of maximum force) are greater than those at the higher temperature. AT 36 C inotropic interventions have more prominent effects on the tension development and its first derivative, while changes in temporal parameters become less conspicuous. It is concluded that the inotropic interventions regulate the strength of contraction more effectively at 36 C and the temporal aspects of contraction more effectively at 28 C.

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Investigations of the time series structure of the EMG during sustained isometric contractions of back muscles.

The experiment aimed at elucidating electromyographic signs of fatigue of lumbar muscles. On two days, 4 subjects had to hold 4 different target forces to fatigue. Bipolar surface EMG's were derived at the L3 level. The time series structure of the EMG's was characterized by means of autoregressive models. The r.m.s.- value did not reveal uniform time-dependent changes, except for an increase during the highest force level. The variance explained by a linear stochastic process systematically increased during the sustained contractions. The mean power frequencies exhibited similar changes.

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