Sarcomere popping requires stretch over a range where total tension decreases with length.

What it found

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Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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8. The mechanisms of the residual force enhancement after stretch of skeletal muscle: non-uniformity in half-sarcomeres and stiffness of titin.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2012
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Corrections and comments

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  Dynamic behaviour of half-sarcomeres during and after stretch in activated rabbit psoas myofibrils: sarcomere asymmetry but no 'sarcomere popping'.2006

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