June-Chiew Han

A unique micromechanocalorimeter for simultaneous measurement of heat rate and force production of cardiac trabeculae carneae.

Energetics of stress production in isolated cardiac trabeculae from the rat.

Radius-dependent decline of performance in isolated cardiac muscle does not reflect inadequacy of diffusive oxygen supply.

A work-loop calorimeter for measuring the force-length-heat relationship of working excised cardiac muscle fibers.

Interventricular comparison of the energetics of contraction of trabeculae carneae isolated from the rat heart.

The afterload-dependent peak efficiency of the isolated working rat heart is unaffected by streptozotocin-induced diabetes.

Dietary pre-exposure of rats to fish oil does not enhance myocardial efficiency of isolated working hearts or their left ventricular trabeculae.

Streptozotocin-induced diabetes prolongs twitch duration without affecting the energetics of isolated ventricular trabeculae.

Dietary supplementation with either saturated or unsaturated fatty acids does not affect the mechanoenergetics of the isolated rat heart.

Reduced mechanical efficiency in left-ventricular trabeculae of the spontaneously hypertensive rat.

Does reduced myocardial efficiency in systemic hypertensive-hypertrophy correlate with increased left-ventricular wall thickness?

A high-resolution thermoelectric module-based calorimeter for measuring the energetics of isolated ventricular trabeculae at body temperature.

Muscle heat: a window into the thermodynamics of a molecular machine.

Cardiac activation heat remains inversely dependent on temperature over the range 27-37°C.

Myocardial energetics is not compromised during compensated hypertrophy in the Dahl salt-sensitive rat model of hypertension.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS AT THE SEVENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGISTS: Genetic and Animal Models for Ion Channel Function in Physiology and Disease.

Thermodynamic analysis questions claims of improved cardiac efficiency by dietary fish oil.

Does the intercept of the heat-stress relation provide an accurate estimate of cardiac activation heat?

Experimental and modelling evidence of shortening heat in cardiac muscle.

Do right-ventricular trabeculae gain energetic advantage from having a greater velocity of shortening?

Pulmonary arterial hypertension reduces energy efficiency of right, but not left, rat ventricular trabeculae.

Left-Ventricular Energetics in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Induced Right-Ventricular Hypertrophic Failure.

The slow force response to stretch: Controversy and contradictions.

Solving a century-old conundrum underlying cardiac force-length relations.

Extensive eccentric contractions in intact cardiac trabeculae: revealing compelling differences in contractile behaviour compared to skeletal muscles.

Energy expenditure for isometric contractions of right and left ventricular trabeculae over a wide range of frequencies at body temperature.

Mechanical loading of isolated cardiac muscle with a real-time computed Windkessel model of the vasculature impedance.

Energetics Equivalent of the Cardiac Force-Length End-Systolic Zone: Implications for Contractility and Economy of Contraction.

Re-visiting the Frank-Starling nexus.

Disruption of transverse-tubular network reduces energy efficiency in cardiac muscle contraction.

Thermodynamic inconsistency disproves the Suga-Sagawa theory of cardiac energetics.

Cardiac mechanical efficiency is preserved in primary cardiac hypertrophy despite impaired mechanical function.

Transverse tubule remodelling in the atrophied left ventricle in right‑sided heart failure.