• n  the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter

News & Articles

• Monster Beverage Corporation Responds To Paper On Energy Drinks And Heart Function
  CORONA, Calif., Dec. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST) today released the following statement in response to a paper presented at the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting entitled "Caffeine and Taurine Containing Energy Drink Improves Systolic Left-ventricular Contractility in Healthy Volunteers Assessed by Strain Analysis Using Cardiac Magnetic ...
  Dec. 2, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

• Vladimir Veksler in EurekAlert (press release)
  Taken together, the results indicate that "the existence of such mechanical signaling between mitochondria and myofibrils opens a new possibility to search for drugs capable of increasing cardiac contractility," Veksler said.