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Muscular contraction : a topic in molecular physiology

Title
Muscular contraction : a topic in molecular physiology / W.F.H.M. Mommaerts, Ph.D., established investigator of the American Heart Association at the Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
Author
Mommaerts, W. F. H. M., 1917-1994
Publication
New York : Interscience Publishers, Inc. ; London : Interscience Publishers Ltd., 1950.

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Description
ix, 191 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Series Statement
Monographs in the physiological sciences
Uniform Title
Monographs in the physiological sciences
Subject
  • Muscles
  • Muscle contraction
  • Muscle Contraction
  • Muscles
  • 42.63 animal physiology
  • 42.13 molecular biology
  • Muscle contraction
  • Spiercontracties
  • Moleculaire biologie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.
Contents
An outline of the metabolism of muscle -- A quantitative picture of muscle metabolism -- The sequence of events in muscular activity -- The muscle proteins -- Myosin, actin, and actomyosin -- Myosin and adenosinetriphosphatase -- The structure of the muscle fibril, the myosin thread -- Contractile threads and fibrils -- Crystalline myosin -- Actin : the second structure protein -- Acomyosin : the myosin-actin complex -- Molecular sizes and shapes of muscle proteins, viscosity and birefringence of flow -- Reaction between AFP and myosin -- Problems and interpretations.
LCCN
  • 50011154
  • x280194810
OCLC
  • ocm14650736
  • 14650736
  • SCSB-307873
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library