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Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 245154, 28 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/245154
Review Article

Poorly Understood Aspects of Striated Muscle Contraction

Alf Månsson,1 Dilson Rassier,2 and Georgios Tsiavaliaris3

1Department of Chemistry Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, 39182 Kalmar, Sweden
2Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T5
3Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Received 22 August 2014; Accepted 28 October 2014

Academic Editor: Oleg S. Matusovsky

Copyright © 2015 Alf Månsson et al. 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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