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THE existence of a volume change accompanying passive stretch of frog muscle was first noted by Ernst and Tigyi1. They concluded that passive stretch of a pre-shortened frog muscle was accompanied by a volume decrease, but they did not record the magnitude of the decrease.
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BASKIN, R., PAOLINI, P. Volume Change accompanying Passive Stretch of Frog Muscle. Nature 204, 694–695 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204694a0
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