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Sarcomeric versus Non-Sarcomeric HCM
Cardiogenetics, 2023 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common heritable cardiovascular disorder and is characterized by left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), which is unexplained by abnormal loading conditions. HCM is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait and, in about 40% of patients, the causal mutation is identified in genes encoding sarcomere proteins ...
Borrelli, Felice +8 more
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Fluid flow in the sarcomere [PDF]
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2021 A highly organized and densely packed lattice of molecular machinery within the sarcomeres of muscle cells powers contraction. Although many of the proteins that drive contraction have been studied extensively, the mechanical impact of fluid shearing within the lattice of molecular machinery has received minimal attention. It was recently proposed that
Sage A. Malingen +4 more
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Sarcomere Length Nonuniformity and Force Regulation in Myofibrils and Sarcomeres [PDF]
Biophysical Journal, 2020 The smallest contractile unit in striated muscles is the sarcomere. Although some of the classic features of contraction assume a uniform behavior of sarcomeres within myofibrils, the occurrence of sarcomere length nonuniformities has been well recognized for years, but it is yet not well understood. In the past years, there has been a great advance in
Felipe de Souza Leite, Dilson E. Rassier
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Distorting the sarcomere [PDF]
Journal of General Physiology, 2010 One of the goals of cardiovascular science is to create a mathematical model of the heart that can predict ventricular function in healthy and diseased states, and that can be used to help improve treatment options for patients with heart disease. To be clinically useful, the model will have to include structural information about the shapes of the ...
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Active Viscoelasticity of Sarcomeres [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 The perturbation response of muscle is important for the versatile, stable and agile control capabilities of animals. Muscle resists being stretched by developing forces in the passive tissues and in the active crossbridges. This review focuses on the active perturbation response of the sarcomere. The active response exhibits typical stress relaxation,
Khoi D. Nguyen 0002 +2 more
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Spontaneous sarcomere dynamics [PDF]
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2010 Sarcomeres are the basic force generating units of striated muscles and consist of an interdigitating arrangement of actin and myosin filaments. While muscle contraction is usually triggered by neural signals, which eventually set myosin motors into motion, isolated sarcomeres can oscillate spontaneously between a contracted and a relaxed state.
Gunther, Stefan, Kruse, Karsten
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In vivo Sarcomere Lengths and Sarcomere Elongations Are Not Uniform across an Intact Muscle [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2016 Sarcomere lengths have been a crucial outcome measure for understanding and explaining basic muscle properties and muscle function. Sarcomere lengths for a given muscle are typically measured at a single spot, often in the mid-belly of the muscle, and at a given muscle length.
Herzog, Walter +4 more
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Molecular analysis of sarcomeric and non-sarcomeric genes in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Gene, 2016 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common genetic heart disorder characterized by unexplained left ventricle hypertrophy associated with non-dilated ventricular chambers. Several genes encoding heart sarcomeric proteins have been associated to HCM, but a small proportion of HCM patients harbor alterations in other non-sarcomeric loci.
BOTTILLO, IRENE +12 more
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Signalling in sarcomeres in development and disease [PDF]
Netherlands Heart Journal, 2013 Sarcomeres are the smallest contractile units of heart and skeletal muscles and are essential for generation and propagation of mechanical force in these striated muscles. During the last decades it has become increasingly clear that components of sarcomeres also play a fundamental role in signal transduction in physiological and pathophysiological ...
Eldik, W. van, Passier, R.
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Sarcomere mechanics in striated muscles: from molecules to sarcomeres to cells [PDF]
American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, 2017 Muscle contraction is commonly associated with the cross-bridge and sliding filament theories, which have received strong support from experiments conducted over the years in different laboratories. However, there are studies that cannot be readily explained by the theories, showing 1) a plateau of the force-length relation extended beyond optimal ...
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