The path of the slow contractile wave in arthropod muscle fibre
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- 10 February 1955
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences
- Vol. 238 (656) , 349-359
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1955.0002
Abstract
The passage of the slow contractile wave of arthropod muscle fibre has been recorded photographically in a type of fibre in which the pattern of cross-striation is helicoidal. The records are consistent with the hypothesis that the slow waves move along the helicoid.Keywords
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