Striated muscle contraction requires intricate interactions of microstructures. The classic textbook assumption that myosin filaments are compressed at the meshed Z-disc during striated muscle fibre ...

In the first of the papers 1, Andrew Huxley and Rolf Niedergerke reported measurements of the optically dense ‘A-bands’ in intact fibres from striated (skeletal) muscle. Using a novel interference ...

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As the world gears up for this summer's Olympics, scientists are celebrating the work of a British woman whose research contributed to a better understanding of how muscles function. It is the 50th ...

The mechanism of skeletal muscle contraction is a process that relies on calcium signaling. However, the physiological role ...