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Shape and Length of Myosin Heads and Radial Compressive Forces in Muscle

✍ Scribed by Jean-Emile Morel; Zalika Merah

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 223 KB
Volume: 184
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0268

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✦ Synopsis

Irrespective of the exact shape and length of myosin heads, it is shown that radial compressive forces occur in contracting muscle, which tend to bring the myofilaments closer to each other. This is in contradiction with common observation: a muscle that shortens swells laterally. The presence of these forces is model-dependent and they appear only in the case of the traditional concepts of force generation. Here we present an overview and a historical account of the problem.

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