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• Interference microscopy shows that the width of 'A bands' in muscle fibres remains constant during contraction, suggesting a 'sliding filament' model in which myosin filaments run the length of the A band and actin filaments slide into the A band.

  • Oct 09, 2007
  • Posted by: maxine clarke

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