M-band: a safeguard for sarcomere stability?
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
- Vol. 24 (2/3), 191-203
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026094924677
Abstract
The sarcomere of striated muscle is a very efficient machine transforming chemical energy into movement. However, a wrong distribution of the generated forces may lead to self-destruction of the...Keywords
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