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2018 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 320a ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsombor Balassy ◽  
Linda Kachmar ◽  
Gijs Ijpma ◽  
Anne-Marie Lauzon
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2015 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 296a
Author(s):  
Gijs Ijpma ◽  
Linda Kachmar ◽  
Anne-Marie Lauzon

2014 ◽  
Vol 548-549 ◽  
pp. 868-872
Author(s):  
Nan Wang ◽  
Hong Tan ◽  
Shan Shan Shi ◽  
Zhi Qiang Yuan

Abstract: Analyzing the rules of microgrid operation based on the design principle and engineering philosophy, and then defining seven microgrid operation states included: grid-tied state, and/off state, off-grid state, off/and state, fault state, power-latch state and shutdown state. Based on these seven modes, the different control strategy will be set out. These seven strategies can be integrated and be used to control the microgrid together. So we can gain the maximum efficiency of the microgrid through that above. At the same time, the appropriate control mode will be selected to guarantee the microgrid can be switched from one mode to another smoothly.. Above all, the microgrid can operate reliably through the integrated control strategy.


Author(s):  
Horia N. Roman ◽  
Nedjma B. Zitouni ◽  
Linda Kachmar ◽  
Apolinary Sobieszek ◽  
Anne-Marie Lauzon

2008 ◽  
Vol 295 (3) ◽  
pp. C653-C660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renaud Léguillette ◽  
Nedjma B. Zitouni ◽  
Karuthapillai Govindaraju ◽  
Laura M. Fong ◽  
Anne-Marie Lauzon

Smooth muscle is unique in its ability to maintain force at low MgATP consumption. This property, called the latch state, is more prominent in tonic than phasic smooth muscle. Studies performed at the muscle strip level have suggested that myosin from tonic muscle has a greater affinity for MgADP and therefore remains attached to actin longer than myosin from phasic muscle, allowing for cross-bridge dephosphorylation and latch-bridge formation. An alternative hypothesis is that after dephosphorylation, myosin reattaches to actin and maintains force. We investigated these fundamental properties of smooth muscle at the molecular level. We used an in vitro motility assay to measure actin filament velocity (νmax) when propelled by myosin purified from phasic or tonic muscle at increasing [MgADP]. Myosin was 25% thiophosphorylated and 75% unphosphorylated to approximate in vivo conditions. The slope of νmax versus [MgADP] was significantly greater for tonic (−0.51 ± 0.04) than phasic muscle myosin (−0.15 ± 0.04), demonstrating the greater MgADP affinity of myosin from tonic muscle. We then used a laser trap assay to measure the unbinding force from actin of populations of unphosphorylated tonic and phasic muscle myosin. Both myosin types attached to actin, and their unbinding force (0.092 ± 0.022 pN for phasic muscle and 0.084 ± 0.017 pN for tonic muscle) was not statistically different. We conclude that the greater affinity for MgADP of tonic muscle myosin and the reattachment of dephosphorylated myosin to actin may both contribute to the latch state.


Author(s):  
L.J. McDaid ◽  
S. Hall ◽  
J.S. Marsland ◽  
W. Eccleston ◽  
J.C. Alderman ◽  
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1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (11) ◽  
pp. 1334-1337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Hellstrand

Stiffness measurements were performed on smooth muscle preparations from guinea-pig taenia coli to obtain information on the number of attached cross bridges under varying contractile conditions. The normalized stiffness of the cross-bridge system in smooth muscle may be of a magnitude similar to that assumed in skeletal muscle. Transition from isometric contraction to unloaded shortening was associated with a decrease in stiffness to 50% or less of the isometric value, slightly higher than that found in skeletal muscle fibers. Comparison of phasic (5 s) and tonic (5 min) contractions showed lower Vmax, intracellular [Ca2+], and myosin 20 kDa light chain phosphorylation at 5 min, indicating development of a latch state. Isometric force and stiffness were identical in the two types of contraction. However, stiffness during unloaded shortening was greater in the latch state, which may be the result of the presence of a population of cross bridges with a low rate constant for detachment.Key words: smooth muscle mechanics, cross bridges, latch, myosin phosphorylation.


1993 ◽  
Vol 265 (3) ◽  
pp. C695-C703 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Hellstrand ◽  
I. Nordstrom

Mechanisms responsible for the decrease in shortening velocity after prolonged contraction ("latch" state) were investigated at identical force during early (20 s, "phasic") and sustained (5 min, "tonic") phases of high-K+ (25-30 mM) contractions in smooth muscle of guinea pig taenia coli. Cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration, myosin light-chain phosphorylation, and maximum shortening velocity all declined from 20 s to 5 min of contraction. The time course of shortening following isotonic quick release was biexponential, with a fastest rate constant of approximately 80 s-1 in both phasic and tonic contractions. Stiffness was identical in phasic and tonic contraction; however, after a release to slack length and unloaded shortening, stiffness during restretch was greater in tonic contraction (51 vs. 43% of isometric stiffness after 16 ms of unloaded shortening). Stiffness decreased after release with a rate constant of approximately 200 s-1, slightly greater in phasic than in tonic contraction. The results indicate that the number of attached cross bridges during unloaded shortening, while substantially reduced relative to the isometric value, is higher in latch than in nonlatch, consistent with a lower detachment relative to attachment rate.


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