Muscle crossbridge action in excitation and relaxation
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 36 (8), 949-950
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01953810
Abstract
Pulse-propagation measurements on a muscle stimulated into tetanus show that the stiffness develops earlier and starts to relax later than the tension. It is concluded that the myosin heads which move towards the actin filaments during excitation become mechanically attached to them.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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