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A. V. HILL1 has shown that ordinary diffusion of a chemical substance is too slow to explain the rapidity with which the contraction in the interior of a striated muscle fibre is set off by the action potential, which is a change in the potential difference across the surface membrane; some more rapid link must therefore exist. Krause's membrane (Z line, telophragma) is a possible anatomical basis for such a link2, since it extends continuously across the fibre and is attached to the interior of the sarcolemma3,4.
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HUXLEY, A., TAYLOR, R. Function of Krause's Membrane. Nature 176, 1068 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/1761068a0
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