The gradual expression of troponin T isoforms in chicken wing muscles.

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：:It is generally thought that the rapid relaxation of fast muscles is facilitated by the Ca(2+) binding protein parvalbumin (Parv). Indeed superfast swimbladder (SWB) muscle of toadfish contains the largest concentration of this protein ever observed (up to 1.5 mM). At 15 degrees C toadfish perform a 100 Hz call, 400 m...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Tikunov BA,Rome LC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The β-adrenergic receptor stimulation improves endurance in fast twitch muscles and these effects are sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ influx. Present study is aimed to determine the effects of adrenaline, with different concentrations of extracellular Ca2+[Formula: see text], on the contractility and endurance of slow...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Rizvi MH,Abdul Azeem M,Savanur A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

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：:The remodelling of connective tissue components is a fundamental requirement for a number of pivotal processes in cell biology. These may include myoblast migration and fusion during development and regeneration. In other systems, similar biological processes are facilitated by secretion of the matrix metalloproteinas...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Lewis MP,Tippett HL,Sinanan AC,Morgan MJ,Hunt NP

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the modification of reactive actin sulfhydryls by S-nitrosoglutathione. Kinetics of S-nitrosylation and denitrosylation suggest that only one cysteine of actin is involved in the reactions. By using the bifunctional sulfhydryl cross-linking reagent N,N'-1,4-phenylenebismaleimide and the monofunctional reag...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Dalle-Donne I,Milzani A,Giustarini D,Di Simplicio P,Colombo R,Rossi R

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myosin II motor from Dictyostelium discoideum has been engineered to contain single tryptophan residues at strategic locations to probe movements of switch 1 and switch 2. The tryptophan residue at W501 probes movement of the relay helix and indirectly reports on switch 2 movement. This probe suggests that there i...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Málnási-Csizmadia A,Dickens JL,Zeng W,Bagshaw CR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensor digitorum longus muscles of normal mice (C57BL/10ScSn hereafter called C57) were orthotopically transplanted into dystrophin-deficient mice (mdx) and reciprocally, mdx Extensor digitorum longus muscles were transplanted into C57 mice. After an initial phase of degeneration, transplanted muscles regenerate nea...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Moens PD,Van-Schoor MC,Maréchal G

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of smooth muscle are thought to be partially determined by the level of the expression of the 7 amino acid insert, SMB, in the myosin heavy chain, as SMB is generally expressed at higher levels in faster smooth muscle. In this study, we determined the role of this insert on shortening velocity and force r...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Karagiannis P,Babu GJ,Periasamy M,Brozovich FV

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a variety of techniques, we have demonstrated the presence of at least two fibre types in Limulus median telson levator muscle. By light and electron microscopy, large (2,156 microns 2 mean cross-sectional area) fibres have A-bands of 4.1 microns, one-half I bands of 2.15 microns and Z lines less than or equal t...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Levine RJ,Davidheiser S,Kelly AM,Kensler RW,Leferovich J,Davies RE

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydropyridine receptors (DHPRs), ryanodine receptors (RyRs), and triadin are major components of triads of mature skeletal muscle and play crucial roles in Ca2+ release in excitation-contraction (E-C) coupling. We investigated the expression and localization of these proteins as well as intracellular Ca2+ transients...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Tanaka H,Furuya T,Kameda N,Kobayashi T,Mizusawa H

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：:We have investigated high-affinity ryanodine-binding sites in membrane preparations from representative fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscles of the rabbit and rat, as well as from human mixed muscle. Our results, obtained in high-ionic strength binding buffer, demonstrate extensive similarities in binding affinity for ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Damiani E,Margreth A

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several factors have an influence on the improvement of muscle activity and motor co-ordination of mammals during post-natal development. One of them is voltage sensitive L-type calcium channel function. In striated muscles of adult mammals these channels are located in T-tubule membranes thus linking the on-coming ac...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Mänttäri S,Pyörnilä A,Harjula R,Järvilehto M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin heavy chain species were investigated during development in avian pectoralis major muscles (type IIB fibres) by high resolution anion-exchange chromatography of the myosin head region, subfragment-1. At 15 days in ovo four distinct fast-type heavy chain species, I, II, III and IV, in order of elution, were iden...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Rushbrook JI,Weiss C,Yao TT

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scallop S1 has a region sensitive to tryptic hydrolysis not found thus far in S1s of other species, located 65K from the N-terminus as determined by SDS/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. In the presence of actin the S1 heavy chain is preferentially cleaved at this site. The high-salt EDTA and calcium ATPase activiti...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Szentkiralyi EM

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explain observed differences in the activation dependence of force redevelopment kinetics between cardiac and skeletal muscle, two numerical models of contractile regulation by Ca2+ were investigated. Ca2+ binding and force production were each modelled as two-state processes with forward and reverse rate constants...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Hancock WO,Huntsman LL,Gordon AM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of Mn2+ and Ca2+ on the mechanical properties of glycerinated myofibrillar bundles originating from slow S1 type muscle fibres of superficial flexor muscles of the lobster Nephrops norvegicus were investigated. Mn2+ (5-20 microM) activated the preparations in a dose-dependent manner. The sensitivity of myofibr...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Holmes JM,Hilber K,Galler S,Neil DM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium overload is a fundamental pathogenic event associated with chronic muscle degeneration in muscular dystrophies. The possibility that L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels were involved in the etiology of chicken muscular dystrophy was investigated by studying the dihydropyridine receptors in transverse tub...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Moro G,Saborido A,Delgado J,Molano F,Megias A

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myosin light chains of slow muscles from different species have been examined two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. While the myosin light chain 2S of mammalian soleus muscles (rabbit, rat and guinea-pig) could not be distinguished from that of avian anterior latissimus dorsi (chicken and turkey), the 1S light chai...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Carraro U,dalla Libera L,Catani C

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:Long-(SL > 6 microns) and short-sarcomere (SL < 4 microns) fibres were isolated from the claw muscle of the yabby (Cherax destructor) during limb regeneration and at different stages of the moult cycle. Long-sarcomere fibres were more susceptible to the changes resulting from the moult-induced atrophy compared with th...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： West JM,Humphris DC,Stephenson DG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulated assembly of actin filaments is essential in nearly all cell types. Studying actin assembly dynamics can pose many technical challenges. A number of these challenges can be overcome by using microfluidics to observe and manipulate single actin filaments under an optical microscope. In particular, microflu...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Wioland H,Suzuki E,Cao L,Romet-Lemonne G,Jegou A

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle repair requires the migration of myoblasts (activated satellite cells) both to the injury site and then within the wound to facilitate cellular alignment in preparation for differentiation, fusion and eventual healing. Along this journey, the cells encounter a range of soluble and extracellular matrix ...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Goetsch KP,Myburgh KH,Niesler CU

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White muscle fibres from dogfish were used to compare the energetic costs of shortening by fully active muscle and by relaxing muscle. The muscle preparation was tetanized for 0.6 s and shortened either during stimulation or during relaxation. The distance shortened was 1 mm (about 15% L0, the muscle length optimum fo...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Lou F,Curtin NA,Woledge RC

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Protein kinase C (PKC) is known to play important roles in integrin mediated cell spreading. This study investigated the role of PKC during insulin mediated muscle cell spreading, which was independent of integrin alpha5. We found that PKC-alpha becomes active and localise to membrane during insulin mediated cell spre...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Goel HL,Dey CS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the amino acid sequences of the essential light chains (ELC) and regulatory light chains (RLC) of myosin from two species of clam, Mercenaria mercenaria and Macrocallista nimbosa, using protein chemistry methods. The N-termini of all four proteins were blocked, and sequencing was carried out on vari...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Barouch WW,Breese KE,Davidoff SA,Leszyk J,Szent-Györgyi AG,Theibert JL,Collins JH

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following activation by G-protein-coupled receptor agonists, protein kinase C (PKC) modulates cardiac myocyte function by phosphorylation of intracellular targets including myofilament proteins cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and cardiac myosin binding protein C (cMyBP-C). Since PKC phosphorylation has been shown to decreas...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Hinken AC,Hanft LM,Scruggs SB,Sadayappan S,Robbins J,Solaro RJ,McDonald KS

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00