Publication Date:
1983-07-08
Description:
When active shortening of the cat papillary muscle was allowed at any time during a contraction, the intracellular concentration of free calcium ions, detected with the calcium-sensitive bioluminescent protein aequorin, was higher than at comparable times in isometric twitches. The difference was not attributable to the differences of length involved or to motion artifacts, and must have been related to the act of shortening or the difference in force development in the two types of contractions. This observation and the phenomenon of shortening deactivation are both consistent with the hypothesis that attachment of cross bridges increases the affinity of the myofilaments for calcium ions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Housmans, P R -- Lee, N K -- Blinks, J R -- HL 12186/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- TW 03046/TW/FIC NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1983 Jul 8;221(4606):159-61.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6857274" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Aequorin
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Animals
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Calcium/analysis/*physiology
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Cats
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Extracellular Space/analysis
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*Myocardial Contraction
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Myocardium/*metabolism
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Sarcoplasmic Reticulum/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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