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Excitation–Contraction Coupling in Heart Muscle

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THERE is general agreement that the membrane process activates the contractile mechanism in muscle; but up to the present all efforts to find quantitative relations between the electrical and mechanical parameters have failed.

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REICHEL, H., BLEICHERT, A. Excitation–Contraction Coupling in Heart Muscle. Nature 183, 826–827 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183826a0

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