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B K Hoskins¹, S Lipscomb, I P Mulligan

¹University Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, United Kingdom.

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

|January 27, 1999

Abstract:

When free calcium is rapidly removed from skinned fibres using the photolabile Ca2+ chelator diazo-2, they relax without an appreciable change in sarcomere length (

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