Machina carnis : the biochemistry of muscular contraction in its historical development /

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Main Author: Needham, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Moyle), 1896-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1971.
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100 1 |a Needham, Dorothy M.  |q (Dorothy Moyle),  |d 1896- 
245 1 0 |a Machina carnis :  |b the biochemistry of muscular contraction in its historical development /  |c by Dorothy M. Needham. 
260 |a Cambridge [Eng.] :  |b University Press,  |c 1971. 
300 |a xv, 782 p. :  |b illus. ;  |c 24 cm. 
500 |a Bibliographyp.603-742. _ Includes index. 
504 |a Bibliography: p. 603-742. 
505 0 0 |a Machine derived contents note: Preface; 1. Bringing muscles into focus: the first two millennia; 2. Muscle metabolism after the Chemical Revolution; 3. the relationship between mechanical events, heat production and metabolism; 4. The influence of brewing science on the study of muscle glycolysis; 5. The discovery of phosphagen and adenosinetriphosphate; 6. Adenosinetriphosphate as fuel and as phosphate-carrier; 7. Early studies of msucle structure and theories of contraction; 8. Interaction of actomyosin and ATP; 9. Some theories of contraction mechanism; 10. On myosin, actin and tropomyoson; 11. The sliding mechanism; 12. How does the sliding mechanism work?; 13. Excitation, excitation-contraction coupling and relaxation; 14. Happenings in intact muscle; 15. Rigor and the chemical; changes responsible for its onset; 16. Respiration; 17. Oxidative phosphorylation; 18. The regulation of carbohydrate metabolism for energy supply to the muscle machine; 19. A comparative study of the striated muscle of vertebrates; 20. Enzymic and other effects of denervation, cross-innervation and repeated stimulation; 21. some aspects of muscle disease; 22. Contraction in muscles of invertebrates; 23. Vertebrate smooth muscle; 24. Energy provision and contactile proteins in non-muscular functions; References. 
650 0 |a Muscle contraction  |x History. 
653 |a Animals  |a Muscles  |a Physiology  |a Theories, to 1968 
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