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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 725207, 20 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/725207
Review Article
Mechanism of Catch Force: Tethering of Thick and Thin Filaments by Twitchin
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
Received 20 January 2010; Accepted 10 March 2010
Academic Editor: Henk L. M. Granzier
Copyright © 2010 Thomas M. Butler and Marion J. Siegman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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