Activation of fast skeletal muscle: contributions of studies on skinned fibers

Muscle Structure and Theories of Contraction

1957 • 3,392 citations

Proposed Mechanism of Force Generation in Striated Muscle

1971 • 2,256 citations

Calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum

1977 • 1,580 citations

Voltage Dependent Charge Movement in Skeletal Muscle: a Possible Step in Excitation–Contraction Coupling

1973 • 978 citations

Calcium Induced Release of Calcium from the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum of Skinned Skeletal Muscle Fibres

1970 • 802 citations

Control of muscle contraction

1969 • 785 citations

Contractions induced by a calcium‐triggered release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum of single skinned cardiac cells.

1975 • 684 citations

Molecular control mechanisms in muscle contraction.

1973 • 565 citations

Local activation of striated muscle fibres

1958 • 556 citations

Structural Changes in the Actin- and Myosin-eontaining Filaments during Contraction

1973 • 544 citations

Potassium contractures in single muscle fibres

1960 • 533 citations

Ionic Mobility in Muscle Cells

1969 • 510 citations

Calcium transients in isolated amphibian skeletal muscle fibres: detection with aequorin.

1978 • 477 citations

Isolation of sarcoplasmic reticulum by zonal centrifugation and purification of Ca2+-pump and Ca2+-binding proteins

1973 • 474 citations

Calcium transients in aequorin-injected frog cardiac muscle

1978 • 441 citations

Calcium and Cardiac Excitation-Contraction Coupling

1979 • 425 citations

STUDIES OF THE TRIAD

1970 • 413 citations

Regenerative Calcium Release within Muscle Cells

1970 • 393 citations

Calcium Transport in Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

1975 • 328 citations

Force measurements in skinned muscle fibres

1969 • 328 citations

A cross-bridge model of muscle contraction

1979 • 317 citations

Sizes of components in frog skeletal muscle measured by methods of stereology.

1975 • 271 citations

The effect of calcium on the force‐velocity relation of briefly glycerinated frog muscle fibres

1971 • 258 citations

Calcium and strontium concentration changes within skinned muscle preparations following a change in the external bathing solution.

1978 • 223 citations

The content of troponin, tropomyosin, actin, and myosin in rabbit skeletal muscle myofibrils

1974 • 219 citations

A non‐linear voltage dependent charge movement in frog skeletal muscle.

1976 • 219 citations

X-ray diffraction studies on skinned single fibres of frog skeletal muscle

1972 • 215 citations

The effect of sudden changes in ionic concentrations on the membrane potential of single muscle fibres

1960 • 214 citations

Intracellular Calcium Movements of Frog Skeletal Muscle during Recovery from Tetanus

1968 • 210 citations

Calcium-Activated Tension of Skinned Muscle Fibers of the Frog

1974 • 208 citations

The Intracellular Site of Calcium Activation of Contraction in Frog Skeletal Muscle

1970 • 196 citations

Contraction of glycerinated muscle fibers as a function of the ATP concentration

1979 • 172 citations

Contraction kinetics of striated muscle fibres following quick changes in load

1966 • 169 citations

Swelling of Skinned Muscle Fibers of the Frog

1977 • 167 citations

The relation between calcium and contraction kinetics in skinned muscle fibres

1970 • 163 citations

Human Skeletal Muscle: Properties of the "Chemically Skinned" Fiber

1975 • 163 citations

Chicken Gizzard: Relation Between Calcium-Activated Phosphorylation and Contraction

1979 • 160 citations

Intracellular calcium movements in skinned muscle fibres

1972 • 159 citations

Kinetics of reaction in calcium-activated skinned muscle fibres

1976 • 158 citations

Mechanism of Action of Caffeine on the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum of Skeletal Muscle

1975 • 156 citations

Calcium transients and intramembrane charge movement in skeletal muscle fibres

1979 • 152 citations

METALLOCHROMIC INDICATORS OF IONIZED CALCIUM

1978 • 150 citations

The regulation of the calcium sensitivity of the contractile system in mammalian cardiac muscle.

1978 • 148 citations

Intersarcomere dynamics during fixed‐end tetanic contractions of frog muscle fibres.

1979 • 144 citations

Heart: Excitation-Contraction Coupling

1977 • 139 citations

Measurement of calcium transients in frog muscle by the use of arsenazo III

1977 • 136 citations

Brief Reviews: Magnesium in Heart Muscle

1973 • 134 citations

Depolarization of the Internal Membrane System in the Activation of Frog Skeletal Muscle

1967 • 134 citations

Ionic permeability of sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles measured by light scattering method

1978 • 133 citations

Release of Calcium induced by ‘Depolarisation’ of the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Membrane

1973 • 130 citations

Permeability of sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane. The effect of changed ionic environments on Ca2+ release

1976 • 129 citations

Use of chlorotetracycline fluorescence to demonstrate Ca2+-induced release of Ca2+ from the sarcoplasmic reticulum of skinned cardiac cells

1979 • 127 citations

Muscle Filament Structure and Muscle Contraction

1975 • 124 citations

Composition of sarcoplasmic reticulum in situ by electron probe X-ray microanalysis

1977 • 118 citations

Tension responses to quick length changes of glycerinated skeletal muscle fibres from the frog and tortoise

1974 • 114 citations

Ionic Strength and the Contraction Kinetics of Skinned Muscle Fibers

1974 • 112 citations

Effects of tetracaine on displacement currents and contraction of frog skeletal muscle.

1976 • 105 citations

Fluorescence intensity changes associated with contractile activation in frog muscle stained with Nile Blue A.

1975 • 104 citations

THE CALCIUM BINDING SITES OF SYNAPTIC VESICLES OF THE FROG SARTORIUS NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION

1974 • 102 citations

Helicoids in the T system and striations of frog skeletal muscle fibers seen by high voltage electron microscopy

1978 • 101 citations

Density and distribution of tetrodotoxin receptors in normal and detubulated frog sartorius muscle.

1976 • 98 citations

The maximum sarcomere length for contraction of isolated myofibrils

1964 • 94 citations

Coupling between the enzymatic site of myosin and the mechanical output of muscle

1979 • 90 citations

31P nuclear magnetic relaxation studies of phosphocreatine in intact muscle: determination of intracellular free magnesium.

1977 • 84 citations

Calcium-Induced Calcium Release and “Depolarization”-Induced Calcium Release: their Physiological Significance

1975 • 83 citations

Nile blue fluorescence signals from cut single muscle fibers under voltage or current clamp conditions.

1978 • 81 citations

Contraction of detergent-treated smooth muscle.

1978 • 79 citations

Evidence for the participation of a Ca²⁺-dependent protein kinase and a protein phosphatase in the regulation of the Ca²⁺ transport ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum. 1. Effect of inhibitors of the Ca²⁺-dependent protein kinase and protein phosphatase

1978 • 79 citations

Depolarization-induced Calcium Release from Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Fragments. I. Release of Calcium Taken up upon Using ATP

1976 • 78 citations

Stretch and radial compression studies on relaxed skinned muscle fibers of the frog

1979 • 69 citations

A large birefringence signal preceding contraction in single twitch fibres of the frog.

1977 • 68 citations

Arsenazo III forms 2:1 complexes with Ca and 1:1 complexes with Mg under physiological conditions. Estimates of the apparent dissociation constants

1979 • 67 citations

Sarcomere length effects on the Sr2+- and Ca2+-activation curves in skinned frog muscle fibres

1979 • 66 citations

CHARGE MOVEMENT IN THE MEMBRANE OF STRIATED MUSCLE

1978 • 64 citations

Inconstant Association of Aequorin Luminescence with Tension during Calcium Release in Skinned Muscle Fibres

1973 • 62 citations

Graded Activation in Frog Muscle Fibers

1973 • 60 citations

The nucleotide complexes of myosin in glycerol-extracted muscle fibres

1973 • 60 citations

Simultaneous changes in fluorescence and optical retardation in single muscle fibres during activity

1975 • 60 citations

A fluorimetric method for continuously assaying ATPase: Application to small specimens of glycerol-extracted muscle fibers

1979 • 59 citations

Depolarization-induced Calcium Release from Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Fragments

1976 • 58 citations

Conditions Required for Calcium-Induced Release of Calcium from the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

1975 • 58 citations

T‐tubule swelling in hypertonic solutions: a freeze substitution study.

1978 • 57 citations

Evidence for the participation of a Ca²⁺dependent protein kinase and protein phosphatase in the regulation of the Ca²⁺transport ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum. 2. Effect of phosphorylase kinase and phosphorylase phosphatase

1978 • 57 citations

Ca2+ dependence of tension and ADP production in segments of chemically skinned muscle fibers

1976 • 54 citations

Length-Force Relation of Calcium Activated Muscle Fibers

1972 • 52 citations

Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Skeletal Muscle: Blockade by High Extracellular Concentrations of Calcium Buffers

1978 • 51 citations

Contractile activation by voltage clamp depolarization of cut skeletal muscle fibres.

1978 • 51 citations

The binding of calcium to glycerinated muscle fibers in rigor. The effect of filament overlap

1977 • 51 citations

The Crossbridge Theory

1979 • 50 citations

Contraction transients of skinned muscle fibers: effects of calcium and ionic strength.

1978 • 50 citations

X-ray titration of binding of β, γ-imido-ATP to myosin in insect flight muscle

1976 • 48 citations

Characterization of the effects of Mg2+ on Ca2+- and Sr2+-activated tension generation of skinned rat cardiac fibers.

1978 • 45 citations

Birefringence signals and calcium transients in skeletal muscle

1977 • 44 citations

EXCITATION AND CONTRACTION PROCESSES IN MUSCLE

1978 • 42 citations

Series elastic properties of skinned muscle fibres in contraction and rigor

1978 • 40 citations

Cooperative interactions between calcium-binding sites on glycerinated muscle fibers the influence of cross-bridge attachment

1977 • 40 citations

Equatorial X-ray intensities and isometric force levels in frog sartorius muscle

1979 • 39 citations

Influence of magnesium on chloride-induced calcium release in skinned muscle fibers.

1977 • 37 citations

Extracellular Ca2+ and excitation–contraction coupling

1979 • 33 citations

Calcium content and exchange in frog skeletal muscle.

1975 • 29 citations

Evidence for Depolarization of the Internal Membrane System in Activation of Frog Semitendinosus Muscle

1966 • 24 citations

The extracellular compartments of frog skeletal muscle.

1979 • 24 citations

Transition temperature of excitation–contraction coupling in frog twitch muscle fibres

1979 • 22 citations

Kinetic Analysis of Myosin and Actomyosin ATPase

1979 • 21 citations

On the relation between filament overlap and the number of calcium-binding sites on glycerinated muscle fibers

1978 • 20 citations

Chloride and osmotic contractures in skinned frog muscle fibers

1979 • 20 citations

Excitation-contraction coupling in frog sartorius and the role of the surface charge due to the carboxyl group of sialic acid

1979 • 18 citations

Contraction Transients of Skinned Muscle Fibers

1974 • 17 citations

Effect of muscle length on 45Ca efflux in resting and contracting skeletal muscle

1976 • 15 citations

THE ELECTRIC POTENTIAL CHANGE OF INTERNAL MEMBRANE DURING PROPAGATION OF CONTRACTION IN SKINNED FIBRE OF TOAD SKELETAL MUSCLE

1975 • 15 citations

Ionophores and Ion Transport Across Natural Membranes

1979 • 13 citations

Filament interaction monitored by light scattering in skinned fibers.

1978 • 12 citations

THE REGULATION OF CALCIUM IN SKELETAL MUSCLE

1978 • 8 citations

Coupling of Movement of Cross-Bridges with ATP Splitting Studied in Terms of the Acceleration of the ATPase Activity of Glycerol-Treated Muscle Fibers on Applying Various Types of Repetitive Stretch-Release Cycles1

1979 • 6 citations

CHLORIDE-INDUCED CONTRACTION IN A SKINNED FIBER OF TOAD STRIATED MUSCLE

1977 • 4 citations

Factors Affecting the Transient Tension Change after Applying Stepwise Length Change to Glycerol-Treated Muscle Fibers

1979 • 1 citations