The term cytoskeleton in muscle and nonmuscle cells refers to fibrous proteins that are
directly or indirectly associated with cell shape, contractility, and/or motility. These …

Motility is a fundamental property of living systems, from the cytoplasmic streaming of
unicellular organisms to the most highly differentiated and devel oped contractile system of …

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current progress in muscle contraction
and cell motility research. It discusses structural, mechanical, and biochemical …

Abstract Actin and Myosin in Muscle. The purpose of a striated muscle cell (see Chap. 46) is
to produce force for contraction or tension. The cellular machinery executing this task is the …

Back from the splendid XXXVIIth European Muscle Conference (EMC) 2008 held in Oxford
at the beautiful Keble College (organised by Steven Marston and Charles Redwood), it may …

Muscle and Nonmuscle Motility, Volume 1 is concerned with the study of the contraction and
the mechanism of movement of muscle cells in a variety of biological systems. The volume …

At the beginning of each academic year the first question asked by my undergraduate
students is not ''did you have a good summer?''but rather ''what book should I read for this …

We are far more likely to arrive at our destination if we know what it is. For those of us who
are interested in how muscles work, the destination is the progressive unification of our …

Twenty years ago the Royal Society of London organized an interna tional meeting of
physiologists in terested in muscle, and one of the speak ers was AV Hill, who in 1922 had …

Force arising from myosin activity drives a number of different types of motility in eukaryotic
cells. Outside of muscle tissue, the precise mechanism of myosin-based cell motility is for the …