Muscle Contraction and Cell Motility

Description

The book provides a comprehensive overview on the mechanisms of muscle contraction and non-muscle cell motility at the molecular and cellular leveland also describes a variety of experimental techniques associated with these systems. Recent findings on the regulatory mechanisms of contraction in skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles as well as on the mechanisms of actin-myosin sliding coupled with ATP hydrolysis are presented. Then, as non-muscle motile systems, protoplasmic streaming and amoeboid movement, based on actin-myosin interactions, as well as ciliary and flagellar movement, based on tubulin-dynein interactions, are treated in detail. Finally, various aspects of cell division movements, where tubulin and actin play an important role, are described.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology -- 12

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Other Editions

• Muscle Contraction and Cell Motility: Molecular and Cellular AspectsElectronic resourceSpringer Berlin Heidelberg1992-01-01
• Muscle Contraction and Cell MotilityJenny Stanford Publishing2016-01-01
• Muscle Contraction and Cell MotilityJenny Stanford Publishing2016-01-01
• Muscle Contraction and Cell MotilityJenny Stanford Publishing2016-01-01