More information: The length tension curve in muscle depends on lattice spacing: rspb.royalsocietypublishing.or … .1098/rspb.2013.0697 Journal information: Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...

Researchers have known for sometime that the muscle filament lattice spacing changes over the length-tension curve, but its importance in generating the steep length dependence of force has not ...

Since the 1950s scientists have had a formula – the so-called length-tension curve – that accurately describes the force a muscle exerts at all points from fully outstretched, when every ...