A coarse-grained model of the myofibril: Overall dynamics and the evolution of sarcomere non-uniformities

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-243

  Givli, Sefi ^a   Bhattacharya, Kaushik ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Fokker Planck; Instability; Muscle; Sarcomere length

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EXPERIMENTS; MUSCLE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT;

BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITIES; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIORS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORTS; CYCLIC LOADINGS; DISTRIBUTION; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; FOKKER-PLANCK; GRAINED MODELS; INSTABILITY; LOAD CHARACTERISTICS; MACROSCOPIC BEHAVIORS; MUSCLE DAMAGES; MUSCLE FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SINGLE SARCOMERES; STOCHASTIC FLUCTUATIONS; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATIONS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 58149200920     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2008.10.013     Document Type: Article

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