title: Sarcomere shortening and tension development during 'isometric' tetanus of muscle.
abstract: Laser diffraction and tension measurements from frog muscle during isometric tetanus reveal that the sarcomeres contract more rapidly than tension develops.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura; D007700:Kinetics; D007834:Lasers; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009132:Muscles / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction