A personal view of muscle and motility mechanisms

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-19

  Huxley, H E ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autobiography; contraction mechanism; electron microscopy; molecular structure; X ray

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CELL MOTILITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNCHROTRON; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0029917475     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ph.58.030196.000245     Document Type: Review

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