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Vol. 275, Issue 6, C1548-C1554, December 1998

Contraction-induced injury to single muscle fibers: velocity of stretch does not influence the force deficit

Gordon S. Lynch1 and John A. Faulkner1,2,3

1 Institute of Gerontology and Departments of 2 Physiology and 3 Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2007

We tested the null hypothesis that the severity of injury to single muscle fibers following a single pliometric (lengthening) contraction is not dependent on the velocity of stretch. Each single permeabilized fiber obtained from extensor digitorum longus muscles of rats was maximally activated and then exposed to a single stretch of either 5, 10, or 20% strain [% of fiber length (Lf)] at a velocity of 0.5, 1.0, or 2.0 Lf /s. The force deficit, the difference between maximum tetanic isometric force (Po) before and after the stretch expressed as a percentage of the control value for Po before the stretch, provided an estimate of the magnitude of muscle injury. Despite a fourfold range from the lowest to the highest velocities, force deficits were not different among stretches of the same strain. At stretches of 20% strain, even an eightfold range of velocities produced no difference in the force deficit, although 40% of the fibers were torn apart at a velocity of 4 Lf /s. We conclude that, within the range of velocities tolerated by single permeabilized fibers, the severity of contraction-induced injury is not related to the velocity of stretch.

skeletal muscle; skinned fibers; muscle damage; pliometric contraction


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