Process in which force is generated within muscle tissue, resulting in a change in muscle geometry. Force generation involves a chemo-mechanical energy conversion step that is carried out by the actin/myosin complex activity
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Muscle Contraction
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Muscle contraction. Part 1, The contractile process.
Date: 1971
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Myothermische Untersuchungen aus den physiologischen Laboratorien zu Zürich und Würzburg von Prof. Billroth, [et al] / gesammelt herausgegeben von A. Fick.
Date: 1889
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Des phénomènes de contraction musculaire observés chez des individus qui ont succombé à la suite du choléra ou de la fièvre jaune : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine, présentée et soutenue le 21 août 1855 / par George-Henry Brandt.
Brandt, George Henry.Date: 1855- Books
Celio Aureliano : della contrazione, che i greci chiamano spasmo, e della distensione che chiamano tetano, e delle loro varieta' / Carlo Castellani.
Castellani, Carlo.Date: 1962- Books
The insoluble problem : muscle in the mid to late seventeenth century / Margaret Anne Nayler.
Nayler, Margaret Anne.Date: 1993