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IT is commonly stated, on evidence obtained with muscle extracts, that the energy of muscular contraction is derived in the first instance from the breaking of the terminal energy-rich phosphate bond of adenosine triphosphate. Why not try to find out whether it really is, not in muscle extracts which cannot contract but in muscles which can?
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HILL, A. Adenosine Triphosphate and Muscular Contraction. Nature 163, 320 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163320a0
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