The Cross-Bridge Spring: Can Cool Muscles Store Elastic Energy?
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The cross-bridge spring: can cool muscles store elastic energy?
Muscles not only generate force. They may act as springs, providing energy storage to drive locomotion. Although extensible myofilaments are implicated as sites of energy storage, we show that intramuscular temperature gradients may enable molecular motors (cross-bridges) to store elastic strain energy. By using time-resolved small-angle x-ray diffraction paired with in situ measurements of mec...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1229573