✦ LIBER ✦
Contractile responses of single fibers in lobster claw closer muscles: Correlation with structure, histochemistry, and innervation
✍ Scribed by Costello, Walter J. ;Govind, C. K.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 839 KB
- Volume
- 227
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-104X
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✦ Synopsis
This study incorporates contractile, structural (sarcomere length), histochemical (myofibrillar ATPase and NADH diaphorase), and physiological (fast and slow axon innervation) parameters to define fiber types in lobster muscle. Single fibers were examined in the closer muscle of adult cutter and crusher claws and of developing larval claws of the lobster Homarus americanus. Fibers with short sarcomeres (< 4 pm) had rise times of 50-160