Muscle Contraction

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A process leading to shortening and/or development of tension in muscle tissue. Muscle contraction occurs by a sliding filament mechanism whereby actin filaments slide inward among the myosin filaments.

Descriptor ID	D009119
MeSH Number(s)	G11.427.494
Concept/Terms	Muscle Contraction Muscle Contraction Contraction, Muscle Contractions, Muscle Muscle Contractions Muscular Contraction Contraction, Muscular Contractions, Muscular Muscular Contractions Inotropism Inotropism Inotropisms

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Biological Sciences [G]
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena [G11]
Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena [G11.427]
Muscle Contraction [G11.427.494]

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Bar chart showing 124 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2009

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1993	1	1	2
1994	0	2	2
1995	2	0	2
1996	0	3	3
1997	2	1	3
1998	0	1	1
1999	1	0	1
2000	1	1	2
2001	0	2	2
2002	2	1	3
2003	3	5	8
2004	4	3	7
2005	0	3	3
2006	1	3	4
2007	3	1	4
2008	8	2	10
2009	4	8	12
2010	1	0	1
2011	6	0	6
2012	2	4	6
2013	3	6	9
2014	4	0	4
2015	1	3	4
2016	1	3	4
2017	1	4	5
2018	1	1	2
2019	0	3	3
2020	1	4	5
2021	2	3	5
2022	0	1	1

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Debold EP. Recent insights into the relative timing of myosin's powerstroke and release of phosphate. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2021 09; 78(9):448-458.

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Gonzalez-Franquesa A, Stocks B, Borg ML, Kuefner M, Dalbram E, Nielsen TS, Agrawal A, Pankratova S, Chibalin AV, Karlsson HKR, Gheibi S, Bj?rnholm M, J?rgensen NR, Clemmensen C, Hostrup M, Treebak JT, Krook A, Zierath JR, Deshmukh AS. Discovery of thymosin ?4 as a human exerkine and growth factor. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2021 11 01; 321(5):C770-C778.

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Scott B, Marang C, Woodward M, Debold EP. Myosin's powerstroke occurs prior to the release of phosphate from the active site. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken). 2021 05; 78(5):185-198.

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Song T, McNamara JW, Ma W, Landim-Vieira M, Lee KH, Martin LA, Heiny JA, Lorenz JN, Craig R, Pinto JR, Irving T, Sadayappan S. Fast skeletal myosin-binding protein-C regulates fast skeletal muscle contraction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 04 27; 118(17).

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Lu P, ElMallah MK, Liu Z, Wu C, Chen J, Lifshitz LM, ZhuGe R. Genetic deletion of the Tas2r143/Tas2r135/Tas2r126 cluster reveals that TAS2Rs may not mediate bitter tastant-induced bronchodilation. J Cell Physiol. 2021 09; 236(9):6407-6423.

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Lu P, Chen J, Zhang C, Saur D, Baer CE, Lifshitz LM, Fogarty KE, ZhuGe R. Oscillating calcium signals in smooth muscle cells underlie the persistent basal tone of internal anal sphincter. J Cell Physiol. 2021 08; 236(8):5937-5952.

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Naredo E, Canoso JJ, Yinh J, Salomon-Escoto K, Kalish RA, Pascual-Ramos V, Mart?nez-Estupi??n L, Kissin E. Dynamic changes in the infrapatellar knee structures with quadriceps muscle contraction. An in vivo study. Ann Anat. 2021 May; 235:151663.

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Tsuji J, Thomson T, Chan E, Brown CK, Oppenheimer J, Bigelow C, Dong X, Theurkauf WE, Weng Z, Schwartz LM. High-resolution analysis of differential gene expression during skeletal muscle atrophy and programmed cell death. Physiol Genomics. 2020 10 01; 52(10):492-511.

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Uwera F, Ammar T, McRae C, Hayward LJ, Renaud JM. Lower Ca2+ enhances the K+-induced force depression in normal and HyperKPP mouse muscles. J Gen Physiol. 2020 07 06; 152(7).

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Woodward M, Ostrander E, Jeong SP, Liu X, Scott B, Unger M, Chen J, Venkataraman D, Debold EP. Positional Isomers of a Non-Nucleoside Substrate Differentially Affect Myosin Function. Biophys J. 2020 08 04; 119(3):567-580.

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