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Preload and Afterload : Sarcomere length-tension relationship

Rishi Desai

Abstract

Find out why the length of a sarcomere (in diastole) affects the amount of force that it can generate (in systole), and how that would look on a graph. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.

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