Inter-sarcomere coordination in muscle revealed through individual sarcomere response to quick stretch

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 29, 2009, Pages 11954-11959

  Shimamoto, Yuta ^a,c   Suzuki, Madoka ^a   Mikhailenko, Sergey V ^a,d   Yasuda, Kenji ^b   Ishiwata, Shin'ichi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GAKUSHUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Myofibril; Partial activation; Sarcomere "yielding"; Z line

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; SARCOMERE; SARCOMERE LENGTH;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BINDING SITES, ANTIBODY; BIOMECHANICS; MUSCLES; MYOFIBRILS; RABBITS; SARCOMERES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67749140072     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0813288106     Document Type: Article

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