Muscle: Contraction of heart muscle sections
Description
The Muscle
data frame has 60 rows and 3 columns.Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- Strip
-
an ordered factor indicating the strip of muscle being measured.
- conc
-
a numeric vector giving the concentration of CaCl2
- length
-
a numeric vector giving the shortening of the heart muscle strip.
Details
Baumann and Waldvogel (1963) describe data on the shortening of heart
muscle strips dipped in a \(\mbox{CaCl}{}_2\) solution.
The muscle strips are taken from the left auricle of a rat's heart.