Molecular and physiological mechanisms of muscle contraction /
[Book]
Jean Emile Morel, Commissariat á l'Energie Atomique (Direction des Sciences du Vivant) Ecole Centrale de Paris & Université (Pierre et Marie Curie) Paris, France
xv, 334 pages ;
26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-324) and index
1. Introduction : historical account and overview -- 2. Materials and methods -- 3. Analysis and characteristics of some major biophysical, enzymological and physiological phenomena in an intact unit cell during contraction (isometric and isotonic) -- 4. New and older experimental results and interpretations -- 5. General features of the hybrid model -- 6. Quantitative data and calculations, concerning short tetani under steady-state isometric contraction conditions, required for quantification of the hybrid model -- 7. Fatigue in one isometrically contracting half-fibre from a young adult frog, and in intact and traditionally demembranated fibres of various origins : discussion based essentially on the hybrid model -- 8. Predictive and explanatory power of the hybrid model : analysis of various problems -- 9. In vitro motility : analysis of experimental data and their interpretations. Movement of cell organelles -- 10. General conclusion : from old concepts, old and recent experimental data and reasoning and new experimental results, to a hybrid model of muscle contraction