Description: The Structural Basis of Muscular Contraction Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): John Squire Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., United States Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. ISBN-13: 9781461331858, 978-1461331858 Synopsis Muscular contraction provides one of the most fascinating topics for a biophysicist to study. Although muscle comprises a molecular machine whereby chemical energy is converted to mechanical work, its action in producing force is something that is readily observable in everyday life, a feature that does not apply to most other structures of biophysical inter est. In addition, muscle is so beautifully organized at the microscopic level that those important structural probes, electron microscopy (with the associated image analysis methods) and X-ray diffraction, have pro vided a wealth of information about the arrangements of the constituent proteins in a variety of muscle types. But, despite all this, the answer to the question "How does muscle work?" is still uncertain, especially with regard to the molecular events by which force is actually generated, and the question remains one of the major unsolved problems in biology. With this problem in mind, this book has been written to collect together the available evidence on the structures of the muscle fila ments and on their arrangements in different muscle cells, to extract the common structural features of these cells, and thus to attempt to define a possible series of mechanical steps that will describe at molecular resolu tion the process by which force is generated. The book cannot be considered to be an introductory text; in fact, it presents a very detailed account of muscle structure as gleaned mainly from electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction.
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Book Title: The Structural Basis of Muscular Contraction
Number of Pages: 716 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Structural Basis of Muscular Contraction
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Chemistry
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 1086 g
Type: Textbook
Author: John Squire
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Paperback
