Effects of solution tonicity on crossbridge properties and myosin lever arm disposition in intact frog muscle fibres

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 578, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 337-346

  Colombini, Barbara ^a   Bagni, Maria Angela ^a   Cecchi, Giovanni ^a   Griffiths, Peter John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; HYPOTONIC SOLUTION; MYOSIN; RINGER SOLUTION; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FROG; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ANURA; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; SARCOMERE LENGTH; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MYOSINS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RANA ESCULENTA; SARCOMERES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33845736878     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.117770     Document Type: Article

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