Related Experiment Videos
Lateral force transmission across costameres in skeletal muscle
Robert J Bloch1, Hugo Gonzalez-Serratos
1Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA. rbloch@umaryland.edu
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews
|April 29, 2003
Abstract:
In skeletal muscle, contractile force can be transmitted laterally between the z-disks and M-lines of neighboring myofibrils, across the sarcolemma, and through the extracellular matrix to the tendon. Here we examine the data that support this model and the sarcolemmal properties and structures, termed "costameres," that are consistent with it.