Biophysical Journal 50: 1127-1138 (1986)
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Energy stored and dissipated in skeletal muscle basement membranes during sinusoidal oscillations.

ABSTRACT

We subjected single skeletal muscle cells from frog semitendinosus to sinusoidal oscillations that simulated the strain experienced as the cells near the end of passive extension and begin active contraction in slow swimming. Other cells from which the basement membrane was removed by enzymatic and mechanical procedures were tested identically. Effectiveness of the basement membrane removal technique was evaluated by electron microscopy, by an electrophoretic and lectin-binding assay for depletion of cell surface glycoproteins, and by confirmation by means of electrophoretic and immunologic analyses that major intracellular, cytoskeletal proteins were not disrupted. Measurements of maximum stress, maximum strain, and phase lag between these maxima enabled the complex modulus (dynamic stiffness) and loss tangent (relative viscous losses to elastic energy storage) to be calculated for each mechanically tested preparation. We also calculated the amounts of energy stored and dissipated in each preparation. These calculations indicate that cells with intact basement membranes have complex moduli significantly greater than those of cells without basement membranes, and that cells with basement membrane store significantly more elastic energy than basement membrane depleted cells. However, when subjected to identical sinusoidal strains, energy dissipation in cells with intact basement membranes is over three times greater than dissipation in cells without basement membrane. The relative magnitudes of energy losses to energy storage, called the specific loss, is nearly three times greater for intact cells than for basement membrane depleted cells. Basement membranes may thereby serve as a brake for slowing passive extension of muscle before contraction begins.

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