Some observations on variations in filament overlap in tetanized muscle fibres and fibres stretched during a tetanus, detected in the electron microscope after rapid fixation

Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 171-182

  Brown, Lucy M ^a   Hill, Lydia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FROG; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TETANUS;

ANIMAL; ELASTICITY; FIXATIVES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLES; RANA TEMPORARIA; SARCOMERES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TENDONS; TETANY;

EID: 0025891686     PISSN: 01424319     EISSN: 15732657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01774036     Document Type: Article

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