The effect of length on the sensitivity to phenylephrine and calcium in intact and skinned vascular smooth muscle.

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate sex-related differences in contractile properties, parameters of action potentials, and mechanisms of force regulation of motor units in the rat soleus muscle, which is a frequent experimental model in animal research. It was revealed that the mean mass of the muscle in males wa...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Drzymała-Celichowska H,Krutki P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The giant molecule titin (also called connectin) provides an elastic connection in the I-band between the Z-disk and A-band of striated muscle. This region is assembled in a tissue-specific way by extensive differential splicing events. We have raised monoclonal antibodies against the two N2-line isoforms of titin and...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Gautel M,Lehtonen E,Pietruschka F

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemistry was used to determine the myosin composition of defined fibre types of three embryologically different adult muscles, the oro-facial, masseter and limb muscles. In addition, the myosin composition in whole muscle specimens was analysed with biochemical methods. Both similarities and differences be...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Stål P,Eriksson PO,Schiaffino S,Butler-Browne GS,Thornell LE

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies have been developed against the junctional feet or spanning protein from skeletal muscle triads. These probes in combination with immunogold labels have been used to localize the spanning protein by electron microscope of isolated vesicles from terminal cisternae/triads. The spanning protein anti...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Kawamoto RM,Brunschwig JP,Caswell AH

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telokin, a 17 kDa smooth muscle specific protein, consists of the C-terminal domain of MLCK, is phosphorylated by PKA and PKG at Ser13 in vivo (Wu et al. (1998) J Biol Chem 273: 11362-11369; Walker et al. (2001) J. Biol Chem 276: 24519-24524) and is proposed to induce Ca2+-desensitization through activation of myosin ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Choudhury N,Khromov AS,Somlyo AP,Somlyo AV

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, there has been no report of rat TnC purification, despite the rat being an animal commonly used in physiological studies of mammalian muscle. In this study we isolated the fast and slow Troponin C isoforms from rat extensor digitorum longus (23 microg TnC/g wet weight) and soleus (17.6 microg TnC/g wet weight...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： O'Connell B,Stephenson GM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The L-type Ca2+ channel in skeletal muscle (alpha1S) is essential for excitation-contraction (EC) coupling. Previous studies using chimeras composed of alpha1S together with alpha1C or alpha1M demonstrated the importance of the alpha1S II-III loop and of a smaller subdomain (residues 720-764; 'ECC') in skeletal EC cou...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Wilkens CM,Beam KG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two procedures to inhibit Ca(2+) release designed to differentiate between local and common pool mechanisms for the Ca(2+) dependent, fast inactivation of Ca(2+) release in skeletal muscle of the frog were compared. Inhibition by voltage dependent inactivation of Ca(2+) release, without modification of the single chan...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Olivera JF,Pizarro G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain gene cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This study investigates (1) the in vitro velocities of translocation of fluorescently-labelled actin by beta-myosin purified from soleus muscle of 30 hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients with seven distinct beta-myosin heavy chain...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Cuda G,Fananapazir L,Epstein ND,Sellers JR

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo state of assembly of myosin in vertebrate smooth muscle is controversial. In vitro studies on purified smooth muscle myosin show that it is monomeric (10S) under relaxing conditions and filamentous under contraction conditions. Electron microscopic and antibody labelling studies of intact smooth muscles, o...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Xu JQ,Gillis JM,Craig R

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for quick-freezing muscles while observing their mechanical properties until the moment of freezing is described. This method was used to freeze the anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus edulis. Intact muscle in the presence of sucrose as a cryoprotectant was freeze-substituted in acetone, fixed ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Bennett PM,Elliott A

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous biological processes, including muscular contraction, depend upon the mechanical properties of actin filaments. One such property is resistance to bending (flexural rigidity, EI). To estimate EI, we attached the ends of fluorescently labelled actin filaments to two microsphere 'handles' captured in independen...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Dupuis DE,Guilford WH,Wu J,Warshaw DM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study describes transitions in myosin heavy chain expression in the extraocular muscles of rats between the ages of E17 and adult. The unique phenotype of the extraocular muscle is reflected in its fibre type composition, which is comprised by six distinct profiles, each defined by location (orbital versus...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Brueckner JK,Itkis O,Porter JD

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle hypertrophy is a result of increased load, such as functional and stretch-overload. Activation of satellite cells and proliferation, differentiation and fusion are required for hypertrophy of overloaded skeletal muscles. On the contrary, a dramatic loss of skeletal muscle mass determines atrophy settin...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Cassano M,Quattrocelli M,Crippa S,Perini I,Ronzoni F,Sampaolesi M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have revealed unconventional myosin V to be an important actin-based molecular motor involved in vesicular movement. In this paper we report the molecular characterization of the Drosophila myosin V, identified by reverse genetics. The gene encodes a 1792-residue, 207 kDa heavy chain polypeptide which p...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Bonafé N,Sellers JR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence to suggest that 8 nm calcium transport particles in the sarcoplasmic reticulum are involved in the regulation of twitch properties in adult muscles. We have studied ultrastructural characteristics of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in relation to previously defined physiological changes that take place in...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Gauthier GF,Hobbs AW

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanically skinned fibre preparations from the extensor digitorum longus muscle of the rat were used to test whether a rise in myoplasmic [NH+4] in the range 2-10 mM interferes with the mechanism of excitation-contraction coupling in fast-twitch mammalian muscle. Under our conditions (pH 7.10, Mg2+ 1 mM, temperature...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Stephenson GM,Stephenson DG

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The width (D) and the 1,0 lattice spacing (d1,0) at various ionic compositions of mechanically skinned single fibres (from semitendinosus muscle of Rana catesbeiana) were measured at various concentrations of polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP K-30, Mn = 40 000) from 0 to 6% at 20 degrees C. In a standard relaxing solution (4...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Umazume Y,Onodera S,Higuchi H

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarcomere length (SL) dependence of the calcium sensitivity of force was measured in skinned single twitch and slow-tonic muscle fibres from frog and toad. Twitch and slow-tonic fibres were characterized by location, appearance, physiological response to calcium and by protein band patterns from sodium-dodecyl-sul...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Martyn DA,Coby R,Huntsman LL,Gordon AM

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarcomere of striated muscle is a very efficient machine transforming chemical energy into movement. However, a wrong distribution of the generated forces may lead to self-destruction of the engine itself. A well-known example for this is eccentric contraction (elongation of the sarcomere in the activated state), ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Agarkova I,Ehler E,Lange S,Schoenauer R,Perriard JC

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the titin filament in the vicinity of the Z-line were investigated using immunoelectron microscopy. We used monoclonal titin antibodies T-11 and T-12 on single fibres of frog skeletal muscle, and on Z-line-extracted fibres. It is well established that the I-band region of titin is elastic. We fi...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Trombitás K,Pollack GH

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the expression of myosin subunits (myosin heavy chains) as well as light chains and the in vivo phosphorylation of the phosphorylatable myosin light chain in the heart ventricle of the adult male European hamster (Cricetus cricetus L.). Two myosin heavy chain isoenzymes could be detected under native a...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Morano I,Adler K,Agostini B,Hasselbach W

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding motif protein 3 (RBM3), a stress-inducible RNA-binding protein that increases protein synthesis and confers cell protection in multiple cell types, has been identified as a possible regulator of skeletal muscle mass. Therefore, the primary aim of this study was to examine the impact of elevated RBM3 on ske...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Van Pelt DW,Confides AL,Judge AR,Vanderklish PW,Dupont-Versteegden EE

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the temperature dependence of active force in lengthening and shortening muscle. Experiments were done, in vitro, on bundles of intact fibres (fibre length L(0) ~2 mm; sarcomere length ~2.5 μm) isolated from a rat fast muscle (flexor hallucis brevis) and a ramp length change...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Roots H,Pinniger GJ,Offer GW,Ranatunga KW

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the most characteristic features of striated muscle are (i) its ability to contract and generate tension when activated and (ii) its ability to return to its original length and form after contraction or stretching ceases. These two properties are to a large extent the primary manifestations of separate sets of...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Vigoreaux JO

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A popular part of many athletes pre-game regime is to stretch. We examined whether a pre-injury stretching protocol could prevent acute contraction-induced injury. The in situ extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle of an anesthetized mouse (80 mg/kg intra-peritoneal) was used. Damage to the muscle from eccentric contr...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Black JD,Stevens ED

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a ramp stretch (amplitude <6% muscle fibre length (L0), speed < 13L0 s(-1)) on twitch tension and twitch tension re-development were examined in intact mammalian (rat) fast and slow muscle fibre bundles. The experiments were done in vitro at 20 degrees C and at an initial sarcomere length of 2.68 microm...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Mutungi G,Ranatunga KW

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin binding protein C (MYBPC) is a crucial component of the sarcomere and an important regulator of muscle function. While mutations in different myosin binding protein C (MYBPC) genes are well known causes of various human diseases, such as hypertrophic (HCM) and dilated (DCM) forms of cardiomyopathy as well as sk...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Knöll R

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated fibres from various muscles were skinned mechanically in oil. From a Ca2+-loaded micropipette, local applications of Ca2+ were made. These produced a limited contraction which relaxed spontaneously. The time-course of sarcomere shortening and re-lengthening was recorded by microcinephotography. Application of...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Gillis JM

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaps in our understanding of muscle mechanics demonstrate that the current model is incomplete. Increasingly, it appears that a role for titin in active muscle contraction might help to fill these gaps. While such a role for titin is increasingly accepted, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. The goals ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Nishikawa K,Dutta S,DuVall M,Nelson B,Gage MJ,Monroy JA

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00