Chronic reduction of gravitational load in the rear limbs of rats to simulate the influence of
near-zero gravity in skeletal muscles has been shown previously to elicit atrophy in the soleus …

… Willerson JT, Watson JT, Hutton I, Fixler DE, Curry GC, Templeton GH: The influence of
hypertonic mannitol on regional myocardial blood flow duringacute and chronic myocardial …

AUTHORS' SYNOPSIS A new technique has been developed to investigate in vivo the
mechanical properties of the left ventricle during both diastole and systole. A flow-pulse generator …

Studies were performed to determine whether an alteration in coronary vascular resistance
and a reduction in the reflow phenomenon occurred in the blood-perfused, heparinized …

Hindlimb hypokinesia was induced in rats by the Morey method to characterize the response
of the soleus muscle. Rats suspended for 1–4 wk exhibited continuous and significant …

We studied the influence of aging on the contractile performance, stiffness, and contraction
time of the canine left ventricle. Eight young (27 +/- 2.5 months, mean +/- SE) and seven old (…

The data from this study document that dobutamine is a powerful inotropic agent in
anesthetized dogs with acute myocardial ischemia and in awake, unsedated ones with chronic …

The influence of temperature on contractile performance, total myocardial stiffness, and the
elastic and viscous components of stiffness was studied in intact hearts (dog) and isolated …

A prerequisite to biomedical analyses of the right ventricular free wall (RVFW) is the
characterization of itsin vivo geometry and instantaneous wall thickness (WT). We present a method …

Tomographic radionuclide ventriculograms may be used for three-dimensional wall motion
analysis. We propose that automatic quantification of these images is possible, and here we …