Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Bringing muscles into focus; the first two millennia
- 2 Muscle metabolism after the Chemical Revolution; lactic acid takes the stage
- 3 The relationship between mechanical events, heat production and metabolism; studies between 1840 and 1930
- 4 The influence of brewing science on the study of muscle glycolysis; adenylic acid and the ammonia controversy
- 5 The discovery of phosphagen and adenosinetriphosphate; contraction without lactic acid
- 6 Adenosinetriphosphate as fuel and as phosphate-carrier
- 7 Early studies of muscle structure and theories of contraction, 1870–1939
- 8 Interaction of actomyosin and ATP
- 9 Some theories of contraction mechanism, 1939 to 1956
- 10 On myosin, actin and tropomyosin
- 11 The sliding mechanism
- 12 How does the sliding mechanism work?
- 13 Excitation, excitation-contraction coupling and relaxation
- 14 Happenings in intact muscle: the challenge of adenosinetriphosphate breakdown
- 15 Rigor and the chemical changes responsible for its onset
- 16 Respiration
- 17 Oxidative phosphorylation
- 18 The regulation of carbohydrate metabolism for energy supply to the muscle machine
- 19 A comparative study of the striated muscle of vertebrates
- 20 Enzymic and other effects of denervation, cross-innervation and repeated stimulation
- 21 Some aspects of muscle disease
- 22 Contraction in muscles of invertebrates
- 23 Vertebrate smooth muscle
- 24 Energy provision and contractile proteins in non-muscular functions
- The perspective surveyed
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
19 - A comparative study of the striated muscle of vertebrates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Bringing muscles into focus; the first two millennia
- 2 Muscle metabolism after the Chemical Revolution; lactic acid takes the stage
- 3 The relationship between mechanical events, heat production and metabolism; studies between 1840 and 1930
- 4 The influence of brewing science on the study of muscle glycolysis; adenylic acid and the ammonia controversy
- 5 The discovery of phosphagen and adenosinetriphosphate; contraction without lactic acid
- 6 Adenosinetriphosphate as fuel and as phosphate-carrier
- 7 Early studies of muscle structure and theories of contraction, 1870–1939
- 8 Interaction of actomyosin and ATP
- 9 Some theories of contraction mechanism, 1939 to 1956
- 10 On myosin, actin and tropomyosin
- 11 The sliding mechanism
- 12 How does the sliding mechanism work?
- 13 Excitation, excitation-contraction coupling and relaxation
- 14 Happenings in intact muscle: the challenge of adenosinetriphosphate breakdown
- 15 Rigor and the chemical changes responsible for its onset
- 16 Respiration
- 17 Oxidative phosphorylation
- 18 The regulation of carbohydrate metabolism for energy supply to the muscle machine
- 19 A comparative study of the striated muscle of vertebrates
- 20 Enzymic and other effects of denervation, cross-innervation and repeated stimulation
- 21 Some aspects of muscle disease
- 22 Contraction in muscles of invertebrates
- 23 Vertebrate smooth muscle
- 24 Energy provision and contractile proteins in non-muscular functions
- The perspective surveyed
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
RED AND WHITE MUSCLE; EARLY WORK
PIGMENTATION. The variations in colour of skeletal muscle, from the deep crimson of the pigeon breast to the whiteness of fish muscle, have long been a matter of discussion; in 1678 Lorenzini commented on the striking differences of colour in certain muscles of the rabbit. It was at first supposed that the red colour was due to a greater supply of blood, but Kolliker (1) in 1850 considered from his histological studies that the pigment was contained actually within the contractile substance of the fibres. Kuhne (4) in 1865 showed that this was indeed the case, by perfusing muscles to wash out all blood, and finding that a haemoglobin-like substance remained in the muscle plasma. In spectral analyses of the reduced and oxygenated forms of the substance, as well as of the carbon monoxide compound and the haematin formed from it, he found no significant difference from blood haemoglobin; but the work of Morner (1) in 1896 made it clear that in all these cases the absorption bands lie nearer the red end of the spectrum with muscle haemoglobin than with blood haemoglobin. He suggested the name myochrome, and the designation myoglobin now in general use was introduced by Günther (1), who confirmed the results of Mörner, only in 1921. Keilin has described the confusion in the literature during the first quarter of this century between myochrome and MacMunn's myohaematin, confusion only cleared up by Keilin's own work.
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- Machina CarnisThe Biochemistry of Muscular Contraction in its Historical Development, pp. 451 - 483Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1971
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