A new hybrid theory of muscle contraction
| Autor: | Dragomir Ct, Anca Barbier, Daria Ungureanu |
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| Rok vydání: | 1976 |
| Předmět: |
Statistics and Probability
Myofilament Nanotechnology Myosins Models Biological General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Cross bridge Adenosine Triphosphate Myofibrils Orientation medicine Perpendicular Physics General Immunology and Microbiology Viscosity Applied Mathematics Myosin Subfragments General Medicine Actins Classical mechanics Modeling and Simulation medicine.symptom General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Muscle Contraction Protein Binding Muscle contraction |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Theoretical Biology. 61:221-244 |
| ISSN: | 0022-5193 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0022-5193(76)90116-8 |
| Popis: | This work represents an attempt to find a more complete and adequate interpretation of the phenomenon of muscle contraction than is presently available. Arguments are presented in favour of the idea that the principal groups of existing theories on contraction contain both elements that should be excluded from consideration and elements that are of particular interest to retain. In the present theory, it is accepted that the essential process in muscle contraction is a relative increase in long-range repulsive forces, exerted directly perpendicular to the myofilaments. It is then assumed that these forces of repulsion are converted into forces which shorten the fibre, by way of a passive mechanical action of obliquely arranged cross bridges between the thick and thin filaments. Analysis of important experimental data serves to emphasize the explicative potential of the new theory. |
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