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Muscle Contraction and Cell Motility

Molecular and Cellular Aspects

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Haruo Sugi

    1. Department of Physiology School of Medicine, Teikyo University, Itabashi-ku Tokyo, 173, Japan

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Part of the book series: Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology (COMPARATIVE, volume 12)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Regulatory Mechanism of Contraction in Skeletal Muscle

    • A. M. Gordon, L. D. Yates
    Pages 1-36

  3. Regulation of Contractility in Cardiac Muscle

    • S. Winegrad
    Pages 37-62

  4. Smooth Muscle Activation

    • G. Pfitzer, J. C. Rüegg
    Pages 63-86

  5. The Structures of Striated and Smooth Muscles Related to Their Function

    • J. M. Squire
    Pages 87-131

  6. Molecular Mechanism of Actin-Myosin Interaction in Muscle Contraction

    • H. Sugi
    Pages 132-171

  7. Mechanisms of Cytoplasmic Streaming and Amoeboid Movement

    • T. Shimmen
    Pages 172-205

  8. Molecular Mechanism of Ciliary and Flagellar Movement

    • R. Kamiya
    Pages 206-226

  9. Molecular Mechanisms of Mitosis and Cytokinesis

    • I. Mabuchi, T. J. Itoh
    Pages 227-260

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 261-264
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physiology School of Medicine, Teikyo University, Itabashi-ku Tokyo, 173, Japan

    Haruo Sugi

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