ReviewThe Journal of physiology2012
Residual force enhancement after stretch in striated muscle. A consequence of increased myofilament overlap?
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- Residual force enhancement following hindlimb unloading and exercise prehabilitation.Journal of muscle research and cell motility · 2025Article
- Linking in vivo muscle dynamics to force-length and force-velocity properties reveals that guinea fowl lateral gastrocnemius operates at shorter than optimal lengths.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- LinkingbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Eccentric muscle contractions: from single muscle fibre to whole muscle mechanics.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2023Review
- Fast stretching of skeletal muscle fibres abolishes residual force enhancement.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- The effect of stretch-shortening magnitude and muscle-tendon unit length on performance enhancement in a stretch-shortening cycle.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Contribution of Stretch-Induced Force Enhancement to Increased Performance in Maximal Voluntary and Submaximal Artificially Activated Stretch-Shortening Muscle Action.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Cross-Bridges and Sarcomeric Non-cross-bridge Structures Contribute to Increased Work in Stretch-Shortening Cycles.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Understanding the Agility of Running Birds: Sensorimotor and Mechanical Factors in Avian Bipedal Locomotion.Integrative and comparative biology · 2018Review
- Predictors of residual force enhancement in voluntary contractions of elbow flexors.Journal of sport and health science · 2018Article
- Do Actomyosin Single-Molecule Mechanics Data Predict Mechanics of Contracting Muscle?International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Review
- A continuum-mechanical skeletal muscle model including actin-titin interaction predicts stable contractions on the descending limb of the force-length relation.PLoS computational biology · 2017Article
- Oxygen consumption of gastrocnemius medialis muscle during submaximal voluntary isometric contractions with and without preceding stretch.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The active force-length relationship is invisible during extensive eccentric contractions in skinned skeletal muscle fibres.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Reduced activation in isometric muscle action after lengthening contractions is not accompanied by reduced performance fatigability.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Actomyosin based contraction: one mechanokinetic model from single molecules to muscle?Journal of muscle research and cell motility · 2016Article
- The increase in non-cross-bridge forces after stretch of activated striated muscle is related to titin isoforms.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2016Article
- The stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) revisited: residual force enhancement contributes to increased performance during fast SSCs of human m. adductor pollicis.Physiological reports · 2015Article
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Abstract
When skeletal muscle is stretched above optimal sarcomere length during tetanic activity there is an increase in force that stays above the isometric force level throughout the activity period. This long-lasting increase in contractile force, generally referred to as 'residual force enhancement after stretch' (FE(resid)), has been studied in great detail in various muscle preparations over more than half a century. Substantial evidence has been presented to show that non-uniform sarcomere behaviour plays a major part in the development of FE(resid). However, in a great number of recent studies the role of sarcomere non-uniformity has been challenged and alternative mechanisms have instead been proposed to explain the increase in force such as enhancement of cross-bridge function and/or strengthening of parallel elastic elements along the muscle fibres. This article presents a short review of the salient features of FE(resid) and provides evidence that non-uniform sarcomere behaviour is indeed likely to play a major role in the development of FE(resid). Electron microscopical studies of fibres rapidly fixed after active stretch demonstrate that, dispersed in the preparation, there are assymetrical length changes within the two halves of myofibrillar sarcomeres resulting in greater filament overlap in one half of the sarcomere than in the opposite sarcomere half. Sarcomere halves with increased filament overlap will consequently be in a situation where they are able to produce a greater force than that recorded in the isometric control. Weaker regions in series will be able to keep the enhanced force by recruitment of elastic elements.
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