Muscle Contraction and Cell Motility - Molecular and Cellular Aspects (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)

This volume intends to provide a comprehensive overview on the mecha nisms of muscle contraction and non-muscle cell motility at the molecu lar and cellular level, not only for investigators in these fields but also for general readers interested in these topics. A most attractive feature of various living organisms in the animal and plant kingdoms is their ability to move. In spite of a great diversity in the structure and function of various motile systems, it has frequently been assumed since the nineteenth century that all kinds of "motility" are essentially the same. Based on this assumption, some investigators in the nineteenth century thought that the mechanisms of motility could better be studied on primitive non-muscle motile systems such as amoeboid movement, rath er than on highly specialized muscle cells. Contrary to their expectation, however, the basic mechanisms of motility have been revealed solely by investigations on vertebrate skeletal muscles, since a monumental discovery of Szent-Gyorgyi and his coworkers in the early 1940s that muscle contraction results from the interaction between two different contractile proteins, actin and myosin, coupled with ATP hydrolysis."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, 12
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	1992
Guest editors:	H. Sugi
Contributors:	A. M Gordon • T. J. Itoh • R. Kamiya • I. Mabuchi • G. Pfitzer • J.C. Ruegg • T. Shimmen • J.M. Squire • H. Sugi
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-76929-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Biophysics Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Biochemistry > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Cellular biology > General
LSN:	3-642-76929-2
Barcode:	9783642769290

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