Muscle Physiology

A topic within Physiology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Biology.

Reading on Muscle Physiology

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Paper1938

The Heat of Shortening and the Dynamic Constants of Muscle

A. V. Hill

Measures the heat a contracting muscle gives off and derives from it an equation relating a muscle's force to its speed of shortening, a relationship that still describes muscle mechanics.

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Paper1954

Changes in the Cross-Striations of Muscle during Contraction and Stretch and their Structural Interpretation

Hugh E. Huxley & Jean Hanson

Shows under the microscope that muscle shortens because overlapping filaments slide past each other rather than the filaments themselves contracting, founding the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction.

Biology · Physiology

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Reading on Muscle Physiology

The Heat of Shortening and the Dynamic Constants of Muscle

Changes in the Cross-Striations of Muscle during Contraction and Stretch and their Structural Interpretation

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