The Origin of Force in Skeletal Muscle

The heat of shortening and the dynamic constants of muscle

1938 • 5,404 citations

Muscle Structure and Theories of Contraction

1957 • 3,392 citations

The variation in isometric tension with sarcomere length in vertebrate muscle fibres

1966 • 3,052 citations

Proposed Mechanism of Force Generation in Striated Muscle

1971 • 2,256 citations

The Mechanism of Muscular Contraction

1969 • 1,928 citations

Changes in the Cross-Striations of Muscle during Contraction and Stretch and their Structural Interpretation

1954 • 1,655 citations

Structural Changes in Muscle During Contraction: Interference Microscopy of Living Muscle Fibres

1954 • 1,532 citations

Electron microscope studies on the structure of natural and synthetic protein filaments from striated muscle

1963 • 1,452 citations

Mechanism of adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis by actomyosin

1971 • 1,289 citations

THE DOUBLE ARRAY OF FILAMENTS IN CROSS-STRIATED MUSCLE

1957 • 627 citations

Muscular contraction.

1974 • 575 citations

The isometric length‐tension diagram of isolated skeletal muscle fibers of the frog

1940 • 455 citations

Muscular contraction. Review lecture

1974 • 424 citations

Theoretical formalism for the sliding filament model of contraction of striated muscle Part I

1974 • 410 citations

Myosine and Adenosinetriphosphatase

1939 • 350 citations

Tension development in highly stretched vertebrate muscle fibres

1966 • 346 citations

FILAMENT LENGTHS IN STRIATED MUSCLE

1963 • 334 citations

Electron microscope studies of the organisation of the filaments in striated muscle

1953 • 304 citations

The maximum length for contraction in vertebrate striated muscle

1961 • 299 citations

A Molecular Theory of Muscle Contraction : Calcium-Dependent Contractions with Hydrogen Bond Formation Plus ATP-Dependent Extensions of Part of the Myosin-Actin Cross-Bridges

1963 • 260 citations

The effect of load on the heat of shortening of muscle

1964 • 256 citations

Mechanical Transients and the Origin of Muscular Force

1973 • 234 citations

Contraction kinetics of striated muscle fibres following quick changes in load

1966 • 169 citations

Chemical machines, Maxwell's demon and living organisms

1971 • 160 citations

Striated Muscle Fibers: Inactivation of Contraction Induced by Shortening

1970 • 133 citations

Effect of calcium ions on the flexibility of reconstituted thin filaments of muscle studied by quasielastic scattering of laser light

1972 • 128 citations

Mechanical properties of the cross-bridges of frog striated muscle.

1971 • 127 citations

The effect of the performance of work on total energy output and metabolism during muscular contraction

1974 • 121 citations

Der mechanismus eines neuen, von der muskelkontraktion verschiedenen kontraktionszyklus

1958 • 115 citations

Mechanical and electrical responses of single innervated crab‐muscle fibres.

1965 • 111 citations

Reversible Mechanochemical Cycle in the Contraction of Vorticella

1971 • 109 citations

Chemical change and energy output during muscular contraction

1971 • 108 citations

Evidence for a New Mechanism of Cell Motility

1972 • 108 citations

Kinetics of Muscular Contraction : the Approach to the Steady State

1960 • 106 citations

Hinge region of myosin

1973 • 100 citations

The Motility of Muscle and Cells

1958 • 96 citations

CROSS-BRIDGE PROPERTIES DERIVED FROM MUSCLE ISOTONIC VELOCITY TRANSIENTS

1969 • 93 citations

A note suggesting that the cross-bridge attachment during muscle contraction may take place in two stages

1973 • 90 citations

Muscle Contraction Transients, Cross-Bridge Kinetics, and the Fenn Effect

1973 • 85 citations

Synthesis of ATP from ADP and Inorganic Phosphate at the Myosin‐Subfragment 1 Active Site

1974 • 74 citations

Dynamics of F-actin and F-actin complexes

1974 • 71 citations

Striated Muscle Fibers: Facilitation of Contraction at Short Lengths by Caffeine

1971 • 69 citations

A “molecular energy” muscle model

1972 • 60 citations

A model for the elementary process in muscle action

1952 • 59 citations

The rheology of the cross striated muscle fibre

1952 • 52 citations

The Site of Force Generation in Muscle Contraction as Deduced from Fluorescence Polarization Studies

1974 • 38 citations

Muskelphysiologie vom Standpunkt der kinetischen Theorie der Hochelastizität und der Entspannungshypothese des Kontraktionsmechanismus

1940 • 36 citations

Physical Chemistry of Contractile Process in Muscle

1952 • 35 citations

Mechanical Properties of Fibres and Muscles

1950 • 31 citations

The fine structure of striated muscle and its functional significance.

1966 • 28 citations

A quick phase in the series-elastic component of striated muscle, demonstrated in isolated fibres from the frog.

1970 • 25 citations

The involvement of pH, Adenosine triphosphate, calcium, and magnesium in the contraction of the glycerinated stalks of Vorticella

1965 • 18 citations

The thermal effects of shortening in tetanic contractions of frog muscle

1973 • 17 citations

The heat of shortening during the plateau of tetanic contraction and at the end of relaxation

1971 • 16 citations

Die Doppelbrechung des Stieles von Carchesium, Insbesondere die Optisch-Negative Schwankung Seines Myonems bei der Kontraktion

1940 • 14 citations

Kinetic theory of the mechanism of muscular contraction

1933 • 7 citations

Theories of Muscular Contraction

1932 • 6 citations

A molecular mechanism of muscle contraction.

1961 • 5 citations