Ventricular function: Evaluation of myocardial contractility in health and disease

The heat of shortening and the dynamic constants of muscle

1938 • 5,404 citations

Force-velocity relations in mammalian heart muscle

1962 • 709 citations

Left Ventricular Tension and Stress in Man

1963 • 493 citations

The abrupt transition from rest to activity in muscle

1949 • 480 citations

Implications of left ventricular asynergy

1969 • 330 citations

Implications of muscle mechanics in the heart.

1962 • 276 citations

Contractile State of the Heart Characterized by Force-Velocity Relations in Variably Afterloaded and Isovolumic Beats

1966 • 261 citations

Effects of exercise on myocardial force-velocity relations in intact unanesthetized man: relative roles of changes in heart rate, sympathetic activity, and ventricular dimensions.

1965 • 231 citations

Factors Influencing Myocardial Contractility.

1968 • 227 citations

Myocardial mechanics in aortic and mitral valvular regurgitation: the concept of instantaneous impedance as a determinant of the performance of the intact heart

1968 • 194 citations

Series Elasticity in Heart Muscle

1967 • 159 citations

Myocardial Force-Velocity Relationships in Clinical Heart Disease

1970 • 127 citations

Time and displacement dependence of cardiac contractility: problems in defining the active state and force-velocity relations.

1965 • 127 citations

Studies on Digitalis

1966 • 123 citations

Active State in Heart Muscle

1967 • 114 citations

Comparison of the Force-Velocity Relation and the Ventricular Function Curve as Measures of the Contractile State of the Intact Heart

1966 • 113 citations

The Mechanism of Muscular Contraction

1965 • 113 citations

Myocardial Force-Velocity Relations Studied in Intact Unanesthetized Man*

1965 • 111 citations

Effects of temperature on series elasticity and contractile element motion in heart muscle

1969 • 103 citations

Instantaneous Force-Velocity-Length Determinants in the Contraction of Heart Muscle

1965 • 103 citations

Force-Velocity-Length-Time Relations of the Contractile Elements in Heart Muscle of the Cat

1969 • 102 citations

A Quantitative Analysis of Left Ventricular Myocardial Function in the Intact, Sedated Dog

1967 • 94 citations

Elastic components of cat papillary muscle

1967 • 72 citations

The series elastic component in muscle

1953 • 68 citations

Correlation of Myocardial Ultrastructure and Function

1968 • 62 citations

The Mechanics of Left Ventricular Contraction in Acute Experimental Cardiac Failure*

1967 • 60 citations

The Series Elasticity of Cardiac Muscle in Hyperthyroidism, Ventricular Hypertrophy, and Heart Failure

1968 • 48 citations

MECHANISM OF MUSCULAR CONTRACTION

1953 • 47 citations

The three element model of muscle mechanics: its applicability to cardiac muscle.

1967 • 43 citations

The Mechanics of Myocardial Contraction

1966 • 36 citations

Zinc uptake in canine or rat spermatozoa

1969 • 28 citations

Application of fiberoptic dye-dilution technic to the assessment of myocardial function

1969 • 12 citations