Muscular Contraction
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- Editor: Robert M. Simmons, King's College London
- Date Published: November 1992
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521417747
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This book is composed of a set of chapters contributed by past and present collaborators of the Nobel laureate Sir Andrew Huxley, covering the areas of muscle research to which he has made major contributions. The purpose of the book is to discuss the way that muscle works, asking questions at a fundamental level about the molecular basis of muscle tone production and muscle contraction. The majority of the chapters are concerned with muscle physiology and the relation between structure and function. The process of activation of muscle is dealt with, together with the mechanism of contraction itself. Although most of the book concerns itself with vertebrate skeletal muscle, several of the chapters deal with cardiac muscle. The book also features two introductory chapters discussing Sir Andrew's achievements in both nerve and muscle physiology. All those interested in the structure and function of muscle, or cell motility in general, will wish to read this book.
Read more- Chapters written by people who have worked with the Nobel laureate Sir Andrew Huxley
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- Date Published: November 1992
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521417747
- length: 314 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 157 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.798kg
- contains: 106 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
1. A. F. Huxley: an essay on his personality and his work on nerve physiology Robert Stampfli
2. A. F. Huxley's research on muscle Robert M. Simmons
3. Ultra-slow, slow, intermediate and fast inactivation of human sodium channels Reinhardt Rüdel and Bernd Fakler
4. The structure of the triad: local stimulation experiments then and now Clara Lara Rranzini-Armstrong
5. The calcium-induced calcium release mechanism in skeletal muscle and its modification by drugs Makoto Endo
6. Hypodynamic tension changes in the frog heart Rolf Niedergerke and Sally Page
7. Regulation of contractile proteins in heart muscle Saul Winegrad
8. Differential activation of myofibrils during fatigue in twitch skeletal muscle fibres of the frog Hugo Gonzalez-Serratos and Maria del Carmen Garcia
9. High-speed digital imaging microscopy of isolated muscle cells Stuart R. Taylor and Kenneth P. Ross
10. Inotropic mechanism of myocardium Lincoln E. Ford
11. Regulation of muscle contraction: dual role of calcium and cross-bridges Albert M. Gordon
12. Fibre types in Xenopus muscle and their functional properties Jan Lännergren
13. An electron microscopists's role in experiments on isolated muscle fibres Lucy M. Brown
14. Structural changes accompanying mechanical events in muscle contraction Robert M. Simmons
15. Mechano-chemistry of negatively strained cross-bridges in skeletal muscle Yale E. Goldman
16. The force response during steady lengthening of active single muscle fibres of the frog Vincenzo Lombardi.
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