Shortening properties of two biochemically defined muscle fibre types of the Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus L.

abstract：:Twitchin, also called mini-titin, is structurally related to the giant elastic protein connectin/titin, and has been found in not only striated but also smooth muscles of bivalves. Many bivalve smooth muscles such as byssus retractor muscles and the opaque part of adductor muscles are known as catch muscles that can m...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Tsutsui Y,Yoshio M,Oiwa K,Yamada A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodges and his colleagues identified a 12 amino acid fragment of troponin I (TnI-ip) that inhibits Ca(2+)-activated force and reduces the effectiveness Ca(2+) as an activator. To understand the role of troponin C (TnC) in the extended cooperative interactions of thin filament activation, we compared the effect of TnI-...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Schachat F,Brandt PW

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:Previous studies have shown that lengthening contractions, in contrast to isometric contractions, readily result in sustained malfunctioning of the exercised muscles. The present study was performed to investigate whether an exercise period with many (240) lengthening contractions (LC) results in alterations in muscle...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Hesselink MK,Kuipers H,Keizer HA,Drost MR,van der Vusse GJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:While the migration of capillary endothelial cells is believed central to the process of new blood vessel development in vivo, the biochemical basis for endothelial motility is unknown. Herein, we demonstrate that retina-derived growth factor (RDGF), a mitogen for endothelial cells (EC), stimulates the migration of mi...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Herman IM,D'Amore PA

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins containing disintegrin domains play a variety of roles in regulating processes involving adhesion, migration and cell type specification during development of many metazoan organisms. Most disintegrin domain containing proteins belong to the ADAM (a disintegrin and a metalloprotease) family of proteins that a...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Blumberg DD,Ho HN,Petty CL,Varney TR,Gandham S

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:The non-hydrolysable ATP analogue, beta,gamma-imido-adenosine-5'-triphosphate (AMPPNP, adenylilimidodiphosphate) does not reduce the stiffness of demembranated sea urchin sperm flagella measured in the rigor state in the absence of MgATP2- and does not cause relaxation of rigor bends. The competitive inhibitions provi...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Okuno M,Brokaw CJ

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Ca2+ activation on the apparent rate constant governing the dissociation of force generating myosin crossbridges was studied in skinned rabbit adductor magnus fibres (fast-twitch) at 21 +/- 1 degree C. Simultaneous measurements of Ca2(+)-activated isometric force and ATPase activity were conducted in par...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Kerrick WG,Potter JD,Hoar PE

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAb's) have been raised against proteins in preparations of Z-discs isolated from honeybee fibrillar flight muscle. These antibodies have identified four Z-disc antigens on immunoblots of honeybee fibrillar proteins. Antibody alpha binds to the 90-100 kD protein, alpha-actinin; mAb P interacts w...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Saide JD,Chin-Bow S,Hogan-Sheldon J,Busquets-Turner L

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental expression of nebulin was studied in embryonic chick skeletal muscle cells in vitro by means of immunofluorescence microscopy. Initially nebulin appeared homogeneously or in a punctate form in the cytoplasm, and then it was assembled into I-Z-I-like complexes containing actin and alpha-actinin but no...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Komiyama M,Zhou ZH,Maruyama K,Shimada Y

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:temporaria (0.9-2.5degrees C) were stimulated to produce a 1 s isometric tetanus at regular intervals until constant mechanical responses were attained. Various degrees of force depression ("fatigue") were produced by decreasing the contraction interval from 30 or 15 min (control to 120, 60, 30 and 15s, respectively. ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Edman KA,Mattiazzi AR

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high resolution, time efficient method is described for determining the complex modulus of activated striated muscle. In this method the applied oscillation of muscle length takes the form of pseudo-random binary noise, PRBN. As a time-domain signal, PRBN is an extension of the double step approach to include n step...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Rossmanith GH

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle fibers exhibit plasticity of their physiological and biochemical properties in response to the firing pattern from the innervating motor neuron. In particular, the gene expression pattern generally characteristic of a slow twitch fiber can be induced in a fast twitch fiber by chronic slow fiber type el...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Shen T,Liu Y,Randall WR,Schneider MF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because complex structural differences in adult extraocular muscles may have physiological and pathophysiological significance, the three-dimensional pattern of myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform expression within the orbital and global layers of the muscle bellies compared with the distal tendon ends was quantitatively...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： McLoon LK,Rios L,Wirtschafter JD

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxy-tryptamine) is an effective antioxidant and free radical scavenger, that has important biological effects in multiple cell types and species. Melatonin research in muscle has recently gained attention, mainly focused on its role in cells or tissue repair and regeneration after injury, due...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Chen B,You W,Shan T

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical events following release of ATP from P3-1-(2-nitro)phenylethyladenosine-5'-triphosphate (caged-ATP) in skinned guinea pig taenia coli smooth muscle in rigor were investigated. A rigor force of about 25-35% of the maximal active force was obtained by removing ATP at the plateau of a maximal active contra...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Arner A,Goody RS,Rapp G,Rüegg JC

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin heavy chain kinase activity was identified in the high speed supernate of lysed Dictyostelium amoebae and was precipitated by 30-50% ammonium sulphate. In low ionic strength buffer, the activity bound tightly to a Cibacron Blue Sepharose column and eluted as a single peak with 1.0 M NaCl. Gel filtration chromat...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Kuczmarski ER

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much has been written about the effects of aging on reproductive function, especially female fertility. Much less is known about how aging may affect the contractility of the smooth muscle within the uterus, the myometrium. The myometrium is active through a woman's entire life, not just during pregnancy. Here we will...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Arrowsmith S,Robinson H,Noble K,Wray S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Striated muscle fine structure began to be really understood following a comprehensive survey of the matter carried out by William Bowman in the late 1830s. The publications resulting from such a study, the first of which earned for the author a precocious election as Fellow of the Royal Society, are herewith examined...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Frixione E

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Rigor complexes between actin and myosin have been shown to cause increased binding of Ca2+ to troponin C. A similar effect of force-generating crossbridges has been suggested as an explanation for the coupling between load and activation which has been observed in skeletal and cardiac muscle. The goal of this study w...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Fuchs F

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the effects of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) and epicatechin (EC), on pump turnover and Ca2+ transport by the cardiac form of the sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA). Fluorescence spectroscopy was used to directly measure SERCA ATPase activity and to measure Ca2+ uptake into cardia...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Kargacin ME,Emmett TL,Kargacin GJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of spontaneous skeletal muscle degeneration and clinical recovery hindlimb muscles of the mdx mutant mouse was examined for functional and metabolic confirmation of apparent structural regeneration. The contractile properties, histochemical staining and myosin light chain and parvalbumin contents of extens...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Anderson JE,Bressler BH,Ovalle WK

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate a potential regulatory role of the nerve, the distribution and expression of dystrophin, of beta-dystroglycan (43DAG) and adhalin (50DAG), two of the dystrophin-associated proteins and utrophin (dystrophin related protein or DRP) were studied in rat muscles after 2 weeks of denervation. We found that dystr...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Biral D,Senter L,Salviati G

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle development involves a complex sequence of time and spatially regulated cellular events leading to the formation of highly specialised syncytial muscle cells displaying a common feature, the capacity of contraction. Analyses of mechanisms controlling muscle development reveals that the main steps of muscle form...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Maqbool T,Jagla K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr. John Gergely passed away on July 26, 2013 after a long and distinguished career. His publications spanned 67 years. He founded the Department of Muscle Research in the Retina Foundation (which later became the Boston Biomedical Research Institute) and served as director for 34 years. Dr. Gergely served on the edit...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Greaser ML,Potter JD,Thomas DD,Strasburg GM,Lehrer SS,Wang CL,Grabarek Z

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotary-shadowed filamin molecules appear as long, highly flexible rods curved into a variety of configurations. The particles observed were 2.7 nm wide but had contour lengths of either 98 nm or 193 nm. The longer particles are probably end-to-end dimers of the shorter but it is not clear how many polypeptide chains t...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Castellani L,Offer G,Elliott A,O'Brien EJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

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