Muscle biophysics
Subtitle: from molecules to cells
By: Dilson E. Rassier, editor
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 682; Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 682.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9781441963659; 9781441963666
Subjects: Muscle contraction; Muscles; Physiology; Muscle Contraction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Striated muscles : from molecules to cells / Dilson E. Rassier; title: Contractile performance of striated muscle / K.A.P. Edman; title: Energy economy in the actomyosin interaction : lessons from simple models / Steven L. Lehman; title: A strain-dependency of myosin off-rate must be sensitive to frequency to predict the B-process of sinusoidal analysis / Bradley M. Palmer; title: Electron microscopic visualization of the cross-bridge movement coupled with ATP hydrolysis in muscle thick filaments in aqueous solution, reminiscences and future prospects / Haruo Sugi; title: Role of titin in skeletal muscle function and disease / Coen A.C. OttenHeijm and Henk Granzier; title: Contractile characteristics of sarcomeres arranged in series or mechanically isolated from myofibrils / Dilson E. Rassier and Ivan Pavlov; title: The force-length relationship of mechanically isolated sarcomeres / W. Herzog, V. Joumaa, and T.R. Leonard; title: Extraction and replacement of the tropomyosin-troponin complex in isolated myofibrils / Beatrice Scellini ... [et al.]; title: Stretch and shortening of skeletal muscles activated along the ascending limb of the force-length relation / Dilson E. Rassier and Clara Pun; title: Cross-bridge properties in single intact frog fibers studied by fast stretches / Barbara Colombini ... [et al.]; title: Crossbridge and non-crossbridge contributions to force in shortening and lengthening muscle / K.W. Ranatunga ... [et al.]; title: Short-range mechanical properties of skeletal and cardiac muscles / Kenneth S. Campbell; title: Crossbridge mechanism(s) examined by temperature perturbation studies on muscle / K.W. Ranatunga and M.E. Coupland; title: Efficiency of cross-bridges and mitochondria in mouse cardiac muscle / C.J. Barclay and C. Widén; title: Mechanisms of skeletal muscle weakness / Håkan Westerblad, Nicolas Place, and Takashi Yamada; title: Stretch-induced membrane damage in muscle : comparison of wild-type and mdx mice / David G. Allen, Bao-ting Zhang, and Nicholas P. Whitehead; title: Cellular and whole muscle studies of activity dependent potentiation / Brian R. MacIntosh.