The expression of neuronal nitric oxide synthase and dystrophin in rat regenerating muscles.

abstract：:A set of five differential equations has been found which gives a satisfactory account of the isotonic and isometric properties of striated muscle. Four of these differential equations give an equally satisfactory account of the results of length-drive experiments with sinusoidal variation of length. In this case, the...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Cheung AS,Gray BF

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：: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：:Tropomyosins (Tm) in humans are expressed from four distinct genes and by alternate splicing >40 different Tm polypeptide chains can be made. The functional Tm unit is a dimer of two parallel polypeptide chains and these can be assembled from identical (homodimer) or different (heterodimer) polypeptide chains provided...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Janco M,Suphamungmee W,Li X,Lehman W,Lehrer SS,Geeves MA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of urocortin (Uro), a recently discovered neuropeptide with selectivity towards corticotropin-releasing hormone type 2 receptor, was tested on whole cell currents expressed by guinea-pig gastric antrum smooth muscle cells. Uro (1 pmol/l-1 nmol/l) caused a concentration-dependent increase of Ca2+-sensitive K...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Petkova-Kirova PS,Gagov HS,Duridanova DB

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated in skeletal muscle both during the rest and contractile activity. Myogenic cells are equipped with antioxidant enzymes, like superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase, γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase and heme oxygenase-1. These enzymes not only neutralise excessiv...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Kozakowska M,Pietraszek-Gremplewicz K,Jozkowicz A,Dulak J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of changes in hydrostatic pressure (up to 10 MPa) on the maximally calcium-activated tension in glycerinated rabbit psoas fibres has been examined. The steady active tension was depressed by 0.8% per MPa pressure rise. This pressure sensitivity was enhanced by the pressure of millimolar phosphate and depres...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Fortune NS,Geeves MA,Ranatunga KW

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：: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：:Single muscle fiber sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel-electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) is a sensitive technique for determining skeletal muscle myosin heavy chain (MHC) composition of human biopsy samples. However, the number of fibers suitable to represent fiber type distribution via this method is undefined. Muscl...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Murach KA,Bagley JR,McLeland KA,Arevalo JA,Ciccone AB,Malyszek KK,Wen Y,Galpin AJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：:Guinea-pig soleus muscles were denervated and electrically stimulated for periods of 43 to 66 days. Stimuli were in 1 s bursts of 40 Hz pulses, repeated every 5 min. Other guinea-pigs were denervated for 82 days without stimulation and, in a third group, the soleus muscle was necrotized and allowed to regenerate witho...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Lewis DM,al-Amood WS,Schmalbruch H

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：: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：:This study investigated the effects of the protein kinase A (PKA) inhibitor, H-89, in mechanically-skinned muscle fibres and intact muscle fibres, in order to determine whether PKA phosphorylation is essential for normal excitation-contraction (E-C) coupling. In skinned EDL fibres of the rat, force responses to depola...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Blazev R,Hussain M,Bakker AJ,Head SI,Lamb GD

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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：:Although a substantial literature exists on the in vitro polymerization of purified myosin, little is known about native thick filament assembly, remodeling or turnover. We have recently described a cell-free system (Bouche et al., 1988) to examine the interactions between thick filaments and soluble, newly synthesize...

journal_title：Journal of muscle research and cell motility

authors： Goldfine SM,Einheber S,Fischman DA

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：: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：: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