Sliding Filament Mechanism in Muscle Contraction
Author : Haruo Sugi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2007-04-27
ISBN-13 : 0387249907
Page : 432 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 from 907 voters
Sliding Filament Mechanism in Muscle Contraction: Fifty Years of Research covers the history of the sliding filament mechanism in muscle contraction from its discovery in 1954 by H.E. Huxley through and including modern day research. Chapters include topics in dynamic X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, muscle mechanisms, in-vitro motility assay, cardiac versus smooth muscle, motile systems, and much more.