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J Appl Physiol 67: 1063-1069, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 67, Issue 3 1063-1069, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Adhesive strength of single muscle cells to basement membrane at myotendinous junctions

J. G. Tidball and M. Chan
Department of Kinesiology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-1568.

Whole muscles loaded to failure frequently fail at or near myotendinous junctions. The present investigation was directed toward determining the breaking stress and failure site of intact and injured myotendinous junction preparations consisting of muscle cells dissected free from surrounding parallel structures but still attached to tendon collagen fibers. These tests show that the breaking stress for intact myotendinous units is 2.7 x 10(5) N/m2, expressed relative to cell cross-sectional area. Failure occurs immediately external to the junction membrane between the cell membrane and lamina densa of the basement membrane. Site and stress at failure are independent of strain and strain rate over a biologically relevant range. Breaking stress in the plane of the membrane, corrected for membrane folding, is 1.2 X 10(4) N/m2. This value is not significantly greater than stress at maximum isometric tension for these cells at these sarcomere lengths. After compression injury, cells fail within the compression site at significantly lower stress (1.9 X 10(5) N/m2). These findings suggest that, in muscle strain injuries that occur under conditions simulated here, failure occurs at myotendinous junctions unless the muscle has suffered previous compression injury leading to failure within the muscle.


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