SHR: spontaneously hypertensive rats without diabetes mellitus; SHR-DM: SHR with diabetes mellitus; DT: peak developed tension; RT: resting tension; TPT: time to peak tension; +dT/dt: maximum tension development rate; -dT/dt: maximum tension decline rate; CSA: papillary muscle cross sectional area.
The following parameters were measured from the isometric contraction: peak developed tension (DT, g/mm), resting tension (RT, g/mm), time to peak tension (TPT, ms), maximum tension development rate (+dT/dt, g/mm/s), and maximum tension decline rate (-dT/dt, g/mm/s).
After the three inotropic interventions, maximum tension development rate was smaller in SHR-DM, and maximum tension decline rate and resting tension did not differ between groups.
Peak developed tension, resting tension, and maximum tension decline rate did not differ between groups (Table 4).
Only time to reach half maximum populations and decline rates of yeasts, which were higher as concentrations of NaCl or KCl increased, were affected, and correspondingly modelled, as a function of salt mixtures.
Initial decline rate (day−1).
The maximum decline of void ratio was 9.7%.
The decline rate was 0.2%.
When the mean age of the landscape surpasses this maximum rates, the rates of carbon accumulation decline.
The exposure distribution was defined by growth and decline rates for years in multiples of 10 before and after the maximum exposure year (in which exposure growth/decline is zero).
