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Changes in the Cross-Striations of Muscle during Contraction and Stretch and their Structural Interpretation

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  1. HUGH HUXLEY: Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund. On leave from the Medical Research Council Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

  2. JEAN HANSON: Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. On leave from the Medical Research Council Biophysics Research Unit, King's College, Strand, London, W.C.2.

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HUXLEY, H., HANSON, J. Changes in the Cross-Striations of Muscle during Contraction and Stretch and their Structural Interpretation. Nature 173, 973–976 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173973a0

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