Download or read book Sliding Filament Mechanism in Muscle Contraction written by Haruo Sugi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sliding Filament Mechanism in Muscle Contraction: Fifty Years of Research covers the history of the sliding filament mechanism in muscle contraction from its discovery in 1954 by H.E. Huxley through and including modern day research. Chapters include topics in dynamic X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, muscle mechanisms, in-vitro motility assay, cardiac versus smooth muscle, motile systems, and much more.