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    The sliding filament theory explains the mechanism of muscle contraction based on muscle proteins that slide past each other to generate movement. According...
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    protein filaments within each skeletal muscle fiber slide past each other to produce a contraction, which is explained by the sliding filament theory. The...
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    1954 the mechanism of muscle contraction, popularly called the "sliding filament theory", which is the foundation of our modern understanding of muscle...
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    actin and myosin filaments themselves do not change length, but instead slide past each other. This is known as the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction...
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    actin and myosin filaments in the A-band of the sarcomere is responsible for the muscle contraction (based on the sliding filament model). The protein...
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    their research team, discovered the sliding filaments in skeletal muscle, known today as the sliding filament theory. Recently, there have been intense...
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    for muscle contraction and relaxation, in what is known as the sliding filament theory. Skeletal muscle relies predominantly on glycogenolysis for the...
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    of the cell slide over each other in what is known as the sliding filament theory. There are two kinds of myofilaments, thick filaments composed of the...
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  • mechanism of movement of muscle fibre in 1954, which came to known as "sliding filament theory". This was a groundbreaking research in muscle physiology, and...
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  • physiologist and physician, and one of the discoverers of the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction. He and Andrew Huxley, complimenting the...
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  • the underlying principle of muscle movement, popularised as the sliding filament theory in 1954. After 15 years of research, he proposed the "swinging...
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    have thinner muscle filaments than those before found. This contributed greatly to the development of the sliding filament theory. Westerman showed that...
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  • microscopy. Using this new technology, these two students proposed the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction. Groundbreaking research was constantly coming...
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    364–73. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2044.2004.03658.x. PMID 15023108. "Sliding Filament Theory, Sarcomere, Muscle Contraction, Myosin | Learn Science at Scitable"...
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    Jean Hanson, 53, British biophysicist and co-discoverer of the "sliding filament theory" of muscle contraction from her microscopic study of muscle fibers...
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  • confident in the motor protein school of thought and related it to the sliding filament theory used to explain muscle contraction. However, by reading other research...
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    The cytoskeleton is a complex, dynamic network of interlinking protein filaments present in the cytoplasm of all cells, including those of bacteria and...
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    Multiverse (redirect from Multiverse theory)
    In recent years, there have been proponents and skeptics of multiverse theories within the physics community. Although some scientists have analyzed data...
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    structures. After the Big Bang, dark matter clumped into blobs along narrow filaments with superclusters of galaxies forming a cosmic web at scales on which...
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    constant cardiac output. More than 30 years before the development of the sliding filament model of muscle contraction and the understanding of the relationship...
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    thick filament moves or slides along the thin filament, resulting in muscle contraction. This process is known as the sliding filament model of muscle contraction...
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    molecule myosin reacts to ATP and ADP to alternately engage with an actin filament and change its shape in a way that exerts a force, and then disengage to...
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    magnetic field at point r → 2 {\displaystyle {\vec {r}}_{2}} due to a filament that carries a current I, starts at position r → a {\displaystyle {\vec...
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    correlation could fit non-static solutions to the equations of Einstein's theory of gravity, the Friedmann–Lemaître solutions. However Lemaître's article...
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    ring is directly attached to the cytoplasm. The filament ends with a capping protein. The flagellar filament is the long, helical screw that propels the bacterium...
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    vessels, or as I will more rightly say, "tracheas", there stand woody filaments M, which being extended in length straddle – for greater strength and...
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    Fractal (redirect from Fractal theory)
    fractals. Diego Krapf has shown that through branching processes the actin filaments in human cells assemble into fractal patterns. Similarly Matthias Weiss...
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  • fields. UHV pressures are measured with an ion gauge, either of the hot filament or inverted magnetron type. In any vacuum system, some gas will continue...
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    Köhler illumination the image of the light source, for example a lightbulb filament, was always visible in the image of the sample.[citation needed] The Nobel...
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    fog collector is based on the net material, the size of the holes and filament, and chemical coating. Fog collectors can harvest from 2% up to 10% of...
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