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Myocardial contractility is a term used in physiology to describe the performance of cardiac muscle.
Contractility is often defined as the intrinsic ability of a cardiac muscle fibre to contract at a given fibre length. Changes in the ability to produce force during contraction result from different degrees of binding between myosin (thick) and actin (thin) filaments. The degree of binding that occurs depends on concentration of calcium ions in the cell; in an intact heart, it is usually the action of the sympathetic nervous system (through catecholamines) that determines the concentration of calcium ions in the cytosol of cardiac muscle cells. All factors that cause an increase in contractility work by causing an increase in intracellular [Ca++] during contraction.[citation needed]
Contractility can be altered through the administration of inotropic agents. Drugs such as catecholamines (norepinephrine and epinephrine) that enhance contractility are considered to have a positive inotropic effect.
Under one existing model[citation needed], the five factors of myocardial performance are considered to be
By this model, if myocardial performance changes while preload, afterload, heart rate, and conduction velocity are all held constant, then the change in performance must be due to a change in contractility. However, changes in contractility alone generally do not occur.[citation needed] Other examples:
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