- 
				  
					this plateau in depolarization and this recovery. 
- 
				  
					So,this might be an action potential 
- 
				  
					you'd record from a ventricular muscle cell, 
- 
				  
					and if at the same time you were recording this action potential 
- 
				  
					and you were also measuring contraction. 
- 
				  
					Think of this measurement as how much contraction the cell has done, 
- 
				  
					at this point in its resting state 
- 
				  
					and in this point it's in its most contracted state, 
- 
				  
					then the contraction follows the action potential 
- 
				  
					by about 100 milliseconds. 
- 
				  
					As the contraction happens--as the action potential happens 
- 
				  
					the contraction happens about 100-150 milliseconds after that,