Machina Carnis The Biochemistry of Muscular Contraction in its Historical Development 1st Edition by Dorothy Needham – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0521112672, 978-0521112673
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Product details:
ISBN 10: 0521112672
ISBN 13: 978-0521112673
Author: Dorothy M. Needham
Table of contents:
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Bringing muscles into focus; the first two millennia
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Muscle metabolism after the Chemical Revolution; lactic acid takes the stage
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The relationship between mechanical events, heat production and metabolism; studies between 1840 and 1930
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The influence of brewing science on the study of muscle glycolysis; adenylic acid and the ammonia controversy
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The discovery of phosphagen and adenosinetriphosphate; contraction without lactic acid
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Adenosinetriphosphate as fuel and as phosphate-carrier
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Early studies of muscle structure and theories of contraction, 1870–1939
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Interaction of actomyosin and ATP
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Some theories of contraction mechanism, 1939 to 1956
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On myosin, actin and tropomyosin
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The sliding mechanism
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How does the sliding mechanism work?
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Excitation, excitation-contraction coupling and relaxation
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Happenings in intact muscle: the challenge of adenosinetriphosphate breakdown
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Rigor and the chemical changes responsible for its onset
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Respiration
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Oxidative phosphorylation
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The regulation of carbohydrate metabolism for energy supply to the muscle machine
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A comparative study of the striated muscle of vertebrates
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Enzymic and other effects of denervation, cross-innervation and repeated stimulation
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Some aspects of muscle disease
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Contraction in muscles of invertebrates
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Vertebrate smooth muscle
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Energy provision and contractile proteins in non-muscular functions
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The perspective surveyed
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