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Professor Huxley and Dr Simmons write: While we agree in the most general sense that the transients recorded by Drs Blangé, Karemaker and Kramer1 and by us2–4 “can be explained by the combined effect of mass and damped elasticity inside the muscle”, we believe that the effect of mass in our experiments was negligible, and that in series with the highly damped elasticity there is an essentially undamped component. Thus our interpretation differs from that presented by Blangé et al. in two respects.
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HUXLEY, A., SIMMONS, R. Tension Transients after Quick Release in Rat and Frog Skeletal Muscles (Reply). Nature 237, 282–283 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/237282a0
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