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The Mechanism of Muscle Contraction [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1974
Muscular contraction is essentially the shortening of the S 2 subunits of heavy meromyosin, integrated to macroscopic motion by the thick and thin filaments.
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Regional Differences in Biceps Femoris Long Head Stiffness during Isometric Knee Flexion

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 2021
This study sought to investigate whether the stiffness of the biceps femoris long head differs between proximal and distal regions during isometric knee flexion at different contraction intensities and muscle lengths. Twelve healthy individuals performed
João R. Vaz, Tiago Neto, José Pedro Correia, Jorge Infante, Sandro R. Freitas   +4 more
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Upper Limbs Muscle Co-contraction Changes Correlated With the Impairment of the Corticospinal Tract in Stroke Survivors: Preliminary Evidence From Electromyography and Motor-Evoked Potential

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
ObjectiveIncreased muscle co-contraction of the agonist and antagonist muscles during voluntary movement is commonly observed in the upper limbs of stroke survivors. Much remain to be understood about the underlying mechanism.
Wenfei Sheng, Shijue Li, Jiangli Zhao, Yujia Wang, Zichong Luo, Wai Leung Ambrose Lo, Minghui Ding, Chuhuai Wang, Le Li   +8 more
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The efficiency of muscle contraction

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2005
When a muscle contracts and shortens against a load, it performs work. The performance of work is fuelled by the expenditure of metabolic energy, more properly quantified as enthalpy (i.e., heat plus work). The ratio of work performed to enthalpy produced provides one measure of efficiency.
Smith, Nicholas P., Barclay, Chris J., Loiselle, Denis S.   +2 more
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Diversity and complexity in neural organoids

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neural organoid research aims to expand genetic diversity on one side and increase tissue complexity on the other. Chimeroids integrate multiple donor genomes within single organoids. Self‐organising multi‐identity organoids, exogenous cell seeding, or enforced assembly of region‐specific organoids contribute to tissue complexity.
Ilaria Chiaradia, Madeline A. Lancaster
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Regulation of gastric smooth muscle contraction via Ca2+-dependent and Ca2+-independent actin polymerization.

PLoS ONE, 2018
In gastrointestinal smooth muscle, acetylcholine induced muscle contraction is biphasic, initial peak followed by sustained contraction. Contraction is regulated by phosphorylation of 20 kDa myosin light chain (MLC) at Ser19, interaction of actin and ...
Sunila Mahavadi, Ancy D Nalli, Hongxia Wang, Derek M Kendig, Molly S Crowe, Vijay Lyall, John R Grider, Karnam S Murthy   +7 more
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In vivo myograph measurement of muscle contraction at optimal length

BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2007
Background Current devices for measuring muscle contraction in vivo have limited accuracy in establishing and re-establishing the optimum muscle length.
Ahmed Aminul, Pawlak Matthias, Karst Matthias, Weilbach Christian, Rahe-Meyer Niels, Piepenbrock Siegfried, Winterhalter Michael   +6 more
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Residual tail twisting in ascidian larvae is stabilized by asymmetric myofibrils that resist bilateral symmetry restoration

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Ascidian Ciona larvae initially show strong clockwise tail twisting, which is largely corrected during development. However, a small residual twist remains. This study shows that organized helical myofibrils in tail muscles mechanically stabilize this residual asymmetry, preventing complete restoration of bilateral symmetry and revealing how embryos ...
Yuki S. Kogure, Misaki K. Nishio, Satoru Okuda, Kohji Hotta   +3 more
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The pyruvate generator is a common phenomenon in mitochondria from different rat and mouse brain regions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The pyruvate generator, which causes activation of respiration by extra‐mitochondrial Ca2+, is also present and functional in rat brainstem mitochondria, as it is in other brain regions. This finding is confirmed by experiments with a fully reconstituted malate–aspartate shuttle (MAS).
Grazyna Debska‐Vielhaber, Niki Karavasili, Matthias Kunz, Zemfira Gizatullina, Timur Gainutdinov, Stefan Vielhaber, Wolfram S. Kunz, Frank N. Gellerich   +7 more
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Cytoprotective Role of Nrf2 in Electrical Pulse Stimulated C2C12 Myotube.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Regular physical exercise is central to a healthy lifestyle. However, exercise-related muscle contraction can induce reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) production in skeletal muscle.
Masaki Horie, Eiji Warabi, Shoichi Komine, Sechang Oh, Junichi Shoda   +4 more
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