The mechanism of the resistance to stretch of isometrically contracting single muscle fibres

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 495-510

  Fusi, Lucat ^a   Reconditi, Massimo ^a,b   Linari, Marco ^a,b   Brunello, Elisabetta ^a   Elangovan, Ravikrishnan ^a   Lombardi, Vincenzo ^a   Piazzesi, Gabriella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGOR; SARCOMERE LENGTH; ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MYOFILAMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PELOPHYLAX ESCULENTUS; SARCOMERE;

ANIMALS; ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; MICROFILAMENTS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; RANA ESCULENTA; REFLEX, STRETCH; SARCOMERES;

EID: 75649116838     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.178137     Document Type: Article

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