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PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue -, Pages 73-80Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00043.2006
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Molecular motors housed in myosins of the thick filament react with thin-filament actins and promote force and shortening in the sarcomeres. However, other actions of these motors sustain sarcomeric activation by cooperative feedback mechanisms in which the actin-myosin interaction promotes thin-filament activation. Mechanical feedback also affects the actin-myosin interaction. We discuss current concepts of how these relatively under-appreciated actions of molecular motors are responsible for modulation of the ejection time and isovolumic relaxation in the beating heart.
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