Smooth muscle and skeletal muscle myosins produce similar unitary forces and displacements in the laser trap

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1006-1021

  Guilford, William H ^a   Dupuis, Donald E ^a   Kennedy, Guy ^a   Wu, Junru ^b   Patlak, Joseph B ^a   Warshaw, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; MYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; KINETICS; LASER; MECHANICS; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031041817     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78753-8     Document Type: Article

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