Reply from Walter Herzog (on behalf of the authors) and Tim Leonard.

摘要

We would like to thank the authors of the letter to the editor for bringing up some interesting points of discussion, and we will attempt in the following to address some of the more important issues. The general conclusion of the authors of the letter is that nothing new was provided in the Topical Review (Herzog et at. 2006), that many of the cited papers suffer from limits of accuracy and additional obvious problems, and that the whole collection of observations is readily explained by non-uniformities of half-sarcomere lengthening