Cross-Bridge Number, Position, and Angle in Target Zones of Cryofixed Isometrically Active Insect Flight Muscle

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3009-3019

  Tregear, Richard T ^a   Reedy, Mary C ^b   Goldman, Yale E ^c   Taylor, Kenneth A ^d   Winkler, Hanspeter ^d   Franzini Armstrong, Clara ^c   Sasaki, Hiroyuki ^e   Lucaveche, Carmen ^b   Reedy, Michael K ^b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MONOMER;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLIGHT MUSCLE; FREEZING; INSECT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

INSECTA;

EID: 2142648732     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74350-7     Document Type: Article

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