Stepwise dynamics of connecting filaments measured in single myofibrillar sarcomeres

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1473-1483

  Yang, Paul ^a   Tameyasu, Tsukasa ^a,b   Pollack, Gerald H ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEE; FLIGHT MUSCLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE LENGTH; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; SARCOMERE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031951415     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77859-2     Document Type: Article

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