Muscle Biophysics

Chapter 1 Striated Muscles: From Molecules to Cells

Chapter 2 Contractile Performance of Striated Muscle

Chapter 3 Energy Economy in the Actomyosin Interaction: Lessons from Simple Models

Chapter 4 A Strain-Dependency of Myosin Off-Rate Must Be Sensitive to Frequency to Predict the B-Process of Sinusoidal Analysis

Chapter 5 Electron Microscopic Visualization of the Cross-Bridge Movement Coupled with ATP Hydrolysis in Muscle Thick Filaments in Aqueous Solution, Reminiscences and Future Prospects

Chapter 6 Role of Titin in Skeletal Muscle Function and Disease

Chapter 7 Contractile Characteristics of Sarcomeres Arranged in Series or Mechanically Isolated from Myofibrils

Chapter 8 The Force–Length Relationship of Mechanically Isolated Sarcomeres

Chapter 9 Extraction and Replacement of the Tropomyosin–Troponin Complex in Isolated Myofibrils

Chapter 10 Stretch and Shortening of Skeletal Muscles Activated Along the Ascending Limb of the Force–Length Relation

Chapter 11 Cross-Bridge Properties in Single Intact Frog Fibers Studied by Fast Stretches

Chapter 12 Crossbridge and Non-crossbridge Contributions to Force in Shortening and Lengthening Muscle

Chapter 14 Crossbridge Mechanism(s) Examined by Temperature Perturbation Studies on Muscle

Chapter 15 Muscle Biophysics

Chapter 16 Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Weakness

Chapter 17 Stretch-Induced Membrane Damage in Muscle: Comparison of Wild-Type and mdx Mice

Chapter 18 Cellular and Whole Muscle Studies of Activity Dependent Potentiation