Mechanism of myofilament sliding in muscle contraction

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Proceedings of the symposium on [title], held at Hakone, Japan in November 1991. In between the introductory lecture on muscle contraction and the summary and conclusion (both by A.F. Huxley) are primary sections devoted to the structural basis of myofilament sliding; regulatory mechanisms of contraction; biochemical aspects of actin-myosin interaction; properties of actin-myosin sliding studied by in vitro movement assay systems; properties of actin-myosin sliding and force generation studied by in vitro force-movement assay systems; structural changes during contraction studied by x-ray diffraction; kinetic properties of actin-myosin sliding in muscle studied by flash photolysis of caged substances and temperature jump; and kinetic properties of actin-myosin sliding studied with demembranated systems, with intact muscle fibers, and by energetics experiments. Note: the ISBN has an invalid check digit.