Contractility of cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue increases with environmental stiffness
Delf Kah, Julia Lell, Tina Wach, Marina Spörrer, Claire A. Dessalles, Julia Kraxner, Sandra Wiedenmann, Richard Carl Gerum, Silvia Vergarajauregui, Tilman Uli Esser, David Böhringer, Felix Benedikt Engel, Ingo Thievessen, Ben Fabry
This study shows that contractile force in cardiac and skeletal muscle tissues increases with environmental stiffness following a power-law relationship.
npj Biological Physics and Mechanics. · Mar 5, 2025Peer-reviewedBiophysics