Rubber-like elasticity and volume changes in the isolated spasmoneme of giant Zoothamnium sp. under Ca2+-induced contraction

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 993-1000

  Moriyama, Yasushige ^a   Okamoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Asai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM BINDING; CILIARY MOTILITY; CILIATE; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TENSION; ZOOTHAMNIUM;

EID: 0032990066     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77263-2     Document Type: Article

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