Fig. 2. Effect of post-rest contraction in papillary muscles. Baseline calcium concentration (0.5mM) is presented as 100%. A- Maximum developed tension normalized per cross-sectional area [DT, g/mm2]; B- positive [+dT/dt, g/mm2 /s]; C- negative [-dT/dt, g/mm2 /s] tension derivative normalized per cross-sectional area of the papillary muscle. Data are expressed in mean ± standard deviation (n= 8 animals/group). Comparison by repeated-measures two-way ANOVA with Tukey post-hoc (p<0.05): *HSF vs Control; ^#HSF vs HSF + Ly.