Muscle Contraction and Cell Motility
Subtitle: Molecular and Cellular Aspects
By: edited by Haruo Sugi
Series: Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology -- 12; Advances in comparative and environmental physiology -- 12.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9783642769290; 9783642769276
Subjects: Biochemistry; Life sciences; Cytology; Human physiology
Description: The book provides a comprehensive overview on the mechanisms of muscle contraction and non-muscle cell motility at the molecular and cellular leveland also describes a variety of experimental techniques associated with these systems. Recent findings on the regulatory mechanisms of contraction in skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles as well as on the mechanisms of actin-myosin sliding coupled with ATP hydrolysis are presented. Then, as non-muscle motile systems, protoplasmic streaming and amoeboid movement, based on actin-myosin interactions, as well as ciliary and flagellar movement, based on tubulin-dynein interactions, are treated in detail. Finally, various aspects of cell division movements, where tubulin and actin play an important role, are described.
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