Contractile Properties of Esophageal Striated Muscle: Comparison with Cardiac and Skeletal Muscles in Rats
Figure 3
Effects of halothane on the contractile responses in esophageal and cardiac muscles. Single-pulse EFS was applied in the absence and presence of halothane (50 mM), an inhibitor of gap junctions, and the contractile responses were recorded. Representative traces of esophageal (a) and cardiac (b) muscle preparations are shown. Similar results were reproducibly obtained in four independent experiments.
