[Prospects for studying myocardial contractility in human autopsy material]

The experiments were carried out on isolated strips of the myocardium of the right atrium and on papillary muscles of the right ventricle from 11 subjects aged 5 to 87 years who died in car accidents, from asphyxia, CO poisoning, ischemic heart disease. The time between death and beginning of the experiment ranged within 1.5 to 60 hours. It was ascertained that the chronoinotropy of human heart strips as well as the reaction to adrenaline, noradrenaline and acetylcholine were similar to those obtained in animal experiments.