The stiffness of skeletal muscle in isometric contraction and rigor: The fraction of myosin heads bound to actin

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2459-2473

  Linari, Marco ^a   Dobbie, Ian ^b   Reconditi, Massimo ^a   Koubassova, Natalia ^a,c   Irving, Malcolm ^b   Piazzesi, Gabriella ^a   Lombardi, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; FROG; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; RIGOR; SARCOLEMMA; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALIA; ANURA;

EID: 0031958205     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77954-8     Document Type: Article

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