Muscle Contraction and Cell Motility

Fundamentals and Developments
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-981-4745-16-1
Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 474 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1040 g

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current progress in muscle contraction and cell motility research. It discusses structural, mechanical, and biochemical characteristics of skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscles, and cell motility. The experimental objects of the studies described in this volume extend from humans to molecules. A distinct feature of this volume is that, in some chapters, evidence against the textbook view is presented, showing how well-established dogma can be denied by an unexpected discovery. This book is as interesting as it is informative for general readers and young scientists alike, and it is sure to inspire both to challenge the enticing mysteries that still remain in this exciting research field.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sugi, Haruo

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Anatomie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Medizinische Biotechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Definite differences between in vitro actin-myosin sliding and muscle contraction revealed by the effect of antibodies to myosin head. Mechanism of force potentiation after stretch in intact mammalian muscle. The catch state of molluscan smooth muscle. The "functional cross-bridge": A basis in structurally-altered kinetic changes in sarcomere mechanics in Drosophila flight muscle. Regulation of myosin function and cardiac contraction by essential myosin light chains. Characteristics and mechanisms of force generation by increase of temperature in active skeletal muscle. What X-ray diffraction can tell us about muscle contraction. ATP utilization in cardiac and skeletal muscle: economy and efficiency. Visualization and recording of myosin head power stroke in skeletal muscle. From artifact to essential component: evolution of function of MYBPC in cardiac muscle.

Über Autor(innen)

Haruo Sugi graduated from the Postgraduate School of the University of Tokyo, Japan, with a PhD in 1962 and was appointed instructor in the Department of Physiology of the University of Tokyo. From 1965 to 1966, he worked at Columbia University as a research associate and at the National Institutes of Health as a visiting scientist. He was a professor in and chairman of the Department of Physiology, Teikyo University Medical School, Japan, from 1973 to 2004, when he became emeritus professor.