Return of Myosin Heads to Thick Filaments After Muscle Contraction
- 12 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 197 (4304) , 685-687
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.301660
Abstract
The heads of myosin molecules, which move to the vicinity of the thin filaments to react with actin during muscle contraction, return to the thick filaments after contraction. The return occurs in two stages; a rapid return of the majority of the myosin heads is followed by a slow return of the rest.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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