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Muscle Physiology
Skeletal Muscle
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Structure
- Surface and internal morphology of skeletal muscle
- Structure and function of membrane systems of skeletal muscle cells
- Quantitative ultrastructure of mammalian skeletal muscle
- Immunological techniques in fluorescence and electron microscopy applied to skeletal muscle fibers.
- Structure of vertebrate striated muscle as determined by X-ray-diffraction studies
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Contraction
- Force generation and shortening in skeletal muscle
- Energetics of muscle contraction
- Chemical mechanism of myosin-catalyzed ATP hydrolysis
- Conformational changes and molecular dynamics of myosin
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Excitation-Contraction Coupling
- Electrical properties of striated muscle
- Impedance measurement of the electrical structure of skeletal muscle
- Inward spread of activation in twitch skeletal muscle fibers
- Optical studies of excitation-contraction coupling using voltage-sensitive and calcium-sensitive probes
- Pharmacological investigations of excitation-contraction coupling
- Mechanism of Ca2+ transport by sarcoplasmic reticulum
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Specialization, Adaptation, and Disease
- Physiology of insect flight muscle
- Emergence of specialization in skeletal muscle
- Alterations in myofibril size and structure during growth, exercise, and changes in environmental temperature
- Skeletal muscle adaptability: significance for metabolism and performance
- Diseases of skeletal muscle
