title: The intimate nature of oculomotor muscles contracture.
abstract: The author makes comments about the shortening and loss of elasticity of the oculomotor muscle that remains slack for some time (contracture), by means of a reasoning based on the Hooke s law and on the papers carried out to demonstrate that a muscle that remains relaxed for some time suffers a shortening due to loss of sarcomeres on the longitudinal direction and the increase of the cross-sectional area due to the increase of collagen tissue in the perimysium and the endomysium.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Oftalmologia, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. csdias@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Carlos Ramos de
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Souza-Dias
mesh_terms: D003094:Collagen / Q000502:physiology*; D003286:Contracture / Q000209:etiology*; D004548:Elasticity; D006801:Humans; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D012518:Sarcomeres / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D003094:Collagen