Muscle biophysics : from molecules to cells / Dilson E. Rassier, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rassier, Dilson E. (Dilson Etcheverry), 1967-

Series:

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 682.

Advances in experimental medicine and biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muscle contraction.

Muscles--Physiology.

Muscles.

Muscle Contraction--physiology.

Medical Subjects:

Muscle Contraction--physiology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2010]

Contents:

Striated muscles : from molecules to cells / Dilson E. Rassier

Contractile performance of striated muscle / K.A.P. Edman

Energy economy in the actomyosin interaction : lessons from simple models / Steven L. Lehman

A strain-dependency of myosin off-rate must be sensitive to frequency to predict the B-process of sinusoidal analysis / Bradley M. Palmer

Electron microscopic visualization of the cross-bridge movement coupled with ATP hydrolysis in muscle thick filaments in aqueous solution, reminiscences and future prospects / Haruo Sugi

Role of titin in skeletal muscle function and disease / Coen A.C. OttenHeijm and Henk Granzier

Contractile characteristics of sarcomeres arranged in series or mechanically isolated from myofibrils / Dilson E. Rassier and Ivan Pavlov

The force-length relationship of mechanically isolated sarcomeres / W. Herzog, V. Joumaa, and T.R. Leonard

Extraction and replacement of the tropomyosin-troponin complex in isolated myofibrils / Beatrice Scellini ... [et al.]

Stretch and shortening of skeletal muscles activated along the ascending limb of the force-length relation / Dilson E. Rassier and Clara Pun

Cross-bridge properties in single intact frog fibers studied by fast stretches / Barbara Colombini ... [et al.]

Crossbridge and non-crossbridge contributions to force in shortening and lengthening muscle / K.W. Ranatunga ... [et al.]

Short-range mechanical properties of skeletal and cardiac muscles / Kenneth S. Campbell

Crossbridge mechanism(s) examined by temperature perturbation studies on muscle / K.W. Ranatunga and M.E. Coupland

Efficiency of cross-bridges and mitochondria in mouse cardiac muscle / C.J. Barclay and C. Widén

Mechanisms of skeletal muscle weakness / Håkan Westerblad, Nicolas Place, and Takashi Yamada

Stretch-induced membrane damage in muscle : comparison of wild-type and mdx mice / David G. Allen, Bao-ting Zhang, and Nicholas P. Whitehead

Cellular and whole muscle studies of activity dependent potentiation / Brian R. MacIntosh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441963659

1441963650

OCLC:

646114086