Normalization of force to muscle cross-sectional area: A helpful attempt to reduce data scattering in contractility studies?

Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2018 Dec;224(4):e13202. doi: 10.1111/apha.13202.

Simon Pecha^{1

2

3}, Jussi Koivumäki⁴, Bastiaan Geelhoed^{3

5}, Romy Kempe⁶, Emanuel Berk^{1

7}, Andreas Engel^{1

7}, Hermann Reichenspurner^{2

3}, Thomas Eschenhagen^{1

3}, Ursula Ravens^{7

8}, Alberto Kaumann⁶, Torsten Christ^{1

3}

¹ Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany.
³ DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany.
⁴ BioMediTech Institute and Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland.
⁵ Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany.
⁶ Department of Pharmacology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
⁷ Department of Pharmacology, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
⁸ Institute of Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

No abstract available

Publication types