A kinetic study of muscular contractions

In the present work the kinetics of muscular contractions are studied, based on a three-state model which is introduced in Section I. The general properties of this class of models for muscular contractions are derived in Sections II-VI. The kinetic equations are solved for four particular examples in Sections VII-X. These analytical results should be useful for comparison with experimental data to determine the functional dependence of the rate contants alpha and beta on muscle length.