Discrepancies between Skinned Single Muscle Fibres and Whole Thigh Muscle Function Characteristics in Young and Elderly Human Subjects

Figure 1

Diagram of the study protocol: 9 steps (see Section 2.5 describing each step in detail). Maximal contractile force (Step  4), maximal shortening velocity (Vo, Step  5) from the slack test, and specific force (maximal contractile force/CSA) were obtained from this protocol.