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The Mechanism of Muscular Contraction

Figure 34.14. Sliding-Filament Model. Muscle contraction depends on the motion of thin fdaments (blue) relative to thick fdaments (red). [After H. E. Huxley. The mechanism of muscular contraction. Copyright 1965 hy Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved.]... [Pg.1410]

The mechanism of muscular contraction, then, seems to demand the existence of a set of two types of interlocking filaments, contraction occurring when the filaments are slid together, relaxation as they move farther apart. In essence, muscular contraction is more like the shutting of a telescope than the tautening of an elastic band. [Pg.251]

In the free myosin and ATP there is considerable binding of water molecules, but when the complex is formed there is a certain amount of charge neutralization and therefore a reduction in the electric field and a decrease in the binding of water molecules. Thus there is an entropy increase, and this plays a significant role in the mechanism of muscular contraction. [Pg.201]

In studying the proteins of muscle one has always in the background the question—how does this new knowledge help to explain the mechanism of muscular contraction With the proteins of nervous tissue the... [Pg.253]

The Mechanism of Muscular Contraction 2.1. The Cross-Bridge Model... [Pg.541]

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