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X-Ray diffraction studies of muscle continue to play an essential role in muscle research. This is by virtue of the possible application of the technique to live intact muscle preparations which are not far removed from the in vivo state and equally in part due to the intrinsically well-ordered arrangement of the contractile proteins within vertebrate skeletal muscle (see Chapter 1). The application of these techniques to frog sartorius muscle (a) has confirmed that, in live contracting muscle, the muscle filaments do not shorten significantly when whole muscle shortens (Huxley, 1953); (b) has shown that major rearrangement of the myosin crossbridge helix array occurs when muscle is in the active or rigor states (Huxley, 1968; Haselgrove, 1975); and (c) has more recently allowed structural events during force production to be followed with about 1 ms time resolution (Huxley et al., 1980, 1981; Kress et al., 1986).
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Harford, J., Squire, J.M. (1990). Static and Time-resolved X-ray Diffraction Studies of Fish Muscle. In: Squire, J.M. (eds) Molecular Mechanisms in Muscular Contraction. Topics in Molecular and Structural Biology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09814-9_10
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