The Comparative Structure and Function of Muscle

1st Edition - January 1, 1975
Author: Henry Huddart
Editor: G. A. Kerkut
Language: English
eBook ISBN:
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The Comparative Structure and Function of Muscle is based upon a series of lectures given at the University of Lancaster over the last seven years, and it follows a natural division into structure, electrophysiology and excitation and mechanical activity. Within each section, an attempt is made to cover all muscle types in as wide a range of animals as the literature will allow. This book comprises 10 chapters, with the first one focusing on the fine structure of skeletal muscle. The following chapters then discuss the fine structure of cardiac and visceral muscle; the innervation of muscle; the ionic basis of the resting potential; the action potential and the activation of muscle; electrical activity and electrochemistry of invertebrate skeletal muscle; electrical activity of invertebrate and vertebrate cardiac muscle; the electrical activity and electrochemistry of visceral muscle; the mechanics of muscle; and excitation-contraction coupling and relaxation. This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of anatomy and the health sciences.

IntroductionSection 1. The Structure of Muscle Introduction 1 The Fine Structure of Skeletal Muscle The contractile component The non-contractile component Heterogeneity of muscle fibres 2 The Fine Structure of Cardiac and Visceral Muscle Cardiac muscles Visceral muscle 3 The Innervation of Muscle The vertebrate and arthropod patternSection 2. The Electrical Activity of Muscle Introduction 4 The Ionic Basis of the Resting Potential The ionic hypothesis The experimental testing of the ionic hypothesis Membrane structure and permeability 5 The Action Potential and the Activation of Muscle The sodium hypothesis Testing of the sodium hypothesisNa Membrane circuitry Evocation of the action potential 6 Electrical Activity and Electrochemistry of Invertebrate Skeletal Muscle Introduction Nematodes Annelids Arachnids Crustaceans Insects Echinoderms 7 Electrical Activity of Invertebrate and Vertebrate Cardiac Muscle Myogenic hearts Tunicates Insects Molluscs The vertebrates Birds Mammals Annelids Crustaceae Arachnids The electrochemistry of cardiac muscle The resting potential The action potential 8 The Electrical Activity and Electrochemistry of Visceral Muscle Introduction The resting potential The action potential The innervation, neural control and pharmacology of vertebrate visceral muscle Innervation, neural control and pharmacology of invertebrate visceral muscle The electrochemistry of visceral muscleSection 3. The Mechanical Activity of Muscle Introduction 9 The Mechanics of Muscle 10 Excitation-Contraction Coupling and Relaxation Disruption and modification of EC couplingA Short Glossary of Fine Structural and PhysiologicalTerminology References Author Index Subject Index Other Titles in the Zoology Division