Is the Cross-Bridge Stiffness Proportional to Tension during Muscle Fiber Activation?

Tension responses to sudden length change in stimulated frog muscle fibres near slack length

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The relation between stiffness and filament overlap in stimulated frog muscle fibres.

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X-ray diffraction measurements of the extensibility of actin and myosin filaments in contracting muscle

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X-ray diffraction evidence for the extensibility of actin and myosin filaments during muscle contraction

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A small-molecule inhibitor of skeletal muscle myosin II

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