Huxley’s Model of Muscle Contraction with Compliance

Huxley’s cross-bridge dynamics of muscle contraction is widely used in understanding, in particular, laboratory experiments on muscles and subunits of muscle. The hard-connection version of the model has several defects. In this paper I present a detailed and precise method of solution of the problem with a compliant element in series with the muscle.

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