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Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6085.

1. The maximum Ca(2+)-activated force, maximum velocity of unloaded shortening and both Ca(2+)- and actin-activated ATPase activities of myosin have been measured in detergent-skinned preparations of isolated bundles of rat right ventricle after exposure of the intact tissue to different conditions of superfusion, mechanical activity and temperature. 2. Maximum Ca(2+)-activated force per unit cross-sectional area decreases with increasing cross-sectional area, and, in the absence of electrical stimulation, with the duration of superfusion. Maximum velocity of unloaded shortening is not influenced by these differences. 3. Actin-activated ATPase activity of myosin decreases as cross-sectional area increases and duration of superfusion increases, but the extent of the decrease in enzymatic activity is less than that of developed force. Ca(2+)-activated ATPase activity is independent of these differences. 4. Actin-activated ATPase activity in cryostatic sections of quickly frozen tissue is not uniform across the transverse section. In thin bundles, it is highest in the centre and lowest at the edge of the section, which correspond, respectively, to the centre and the surface of the tissue bundle. Exposure of the tissue section to 1 microM-cyclic AMP increases the actin-activated ATPase activity of myosin with the largest increase in activity occurring at or near the surface of the bundle. 5. Ca(2+)-activated ATPase activity of myosin is uniform across the transverse section and is not changed by cyclic AMP. 6. Electrical stimulation, elevated Ca2+ concentration in the superfusion medium, or isoprenaline partially or completely reverse the decline in maximum Ca(2+)-activated force produced by prolonged superfusion of the bundle before its skinning. 7. These observations are similar in many ways to those made on frog skeletal muscles by Elzinga, Howarth, Rull, Wilson & Woledge (1989a). An explanation based on the existence of a physiological mechanism for regulating the properties of force generators is proposed. Regulation of the attachment of the cross-bridge to an actin filament may be the basis for the regulatory mechanism.

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