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The Croonian Lecture, 1977. Stretch activation of muscle: function and mechanism.

Pringle JW. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 1978. Cited by 218 papers, by iCite.

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Title
The Croonian Lecture, 1977. Stretch activation of muscle: function and mechanism.
PubMed
Journal
Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
PubMed
Year
1978
PubMed
Publication types
Journal Article, Review
PubMed
Citations, by iCite
218
iCite
Relative citation ratio, by iCite
5.64
iCite
Revised in PubMed
2018-12-12
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Authors1

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OrderAuthorForenameKindORCID iD
1Pringle JWJ W

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Topics13

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MeSH termMajor
Muscle ContractionMajor topic
Adenosine Triphosphatases
Animals
Calcium
Coleoptera
Hemiptera
Mechanoreceptors
Models, Biological
Muscle Relaxation
Muscles
Papillary Muscles
Rabbits
Species Specificity

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Cited by136

The papers in our copy of PubMed whose reference list names this one, newest first. iCite, which reads more sources, counts 218 citations.

PMIDTitleJournalYearIn PapersSource
42,394,838Fine-tuning striated muscle performance: conserved sarcomere-level mechanisms across insect and vertebrate systems.Front Physiol2026https://conductscience.org/library/papers/42394838PubMed
40,788,262Stretch activation combats force loss from fatigue in fast-contracting mouse skeletal muscle fibers.J Gen Physiol2025https://conductscience.org/library/papers/40788262PubMed
39,799,399A Drosophila cardiac myosin increases jump muscle stretch activation and shortening deactivation.Biophys J2025https://conductscience.org/library/papers/39799399PubMed
38,386,705Structure of mavacamten-free human cardiac thick filaments within the sarcomere by cryoelectron tomography.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A2024https://conductscience.org/library/papers/38386705PubMed
36,613,818Structure of the Flight Muscle Thick Filament from the Bumble Bee, Bombus ignitus, at 6 Å Resolution.Int J Mol Sci2022https://conductscience.org/library/papers/36613818PubMed
36,475,440Musculoskeletal wing-actuation model of hummingbirds predicts diverse effects of primary flight muscles in hovering flight.Proc Biol Sci2022https://conductscience.org/library/papers/36475440PubMed
36,280,392Molecular regulation of stretch activation.Am J Physiol Cell Physiol2022https://conductscience.org/library/papers/36280392PubMed
36,160,842A thermodynamically consistent monte carlo cross-bridge model with a trapping mechanism reveals the role of stretch activation in heart pumping.Front Physiol2022https://conductscience.org/library/papers/36160842PubMed
34,965,153Shortening deactivation: quantifying a critical component of cyclical muscle contraction.Am J Physiol Cell Physiol2022https://conductscience.org/library/papers/34965153PubMed
34,876,473Distinct Aging-Vulnerable and -Resilient Trajectories of Specific Motor Circuit Functions in Oxidation- and Temperature-Stressed Drosophila.eNeuro2022https://conductscience.org/library/papers/34876473PubMed
34,034,520Rapid frequency modulation in a resonant system: aerial perturbation recovery in hawkmoths.Proc Biol Sci2021https://conductscience.org/library/papers/34034520PubMed
33,975,478Myosin cross-bridge kinetics slow at longer muscle lengths during isometric contractions in intact soleus from mice.Proc Biol Sci2021https://conductscience.org/library/papers/33975478PubMed
33,275,758Making waves: A proposed new role for myosin-binding protein C in regulating oscillatory contractions in vertebrate striated muscle.J Gen Physiol2021https://conductscience.org/library/papers/33275758PubMed
32,718,994CryoEM structure of Drosophila flight muscle thick filaments at 7 Å resolution.Life Sci Alliance2020https://conductscience.org/library/papers/32718994PubMed
31,532,715A myosin-based mechanism for stretch activation and its possible role revealed by varying phosphate concentration in fast and slow mouse skeletal muscle fibers.Am J Physiol Cell Physiol2019https://conductscience.org/library/papers/31532715PubMed
31,292,801Through thick and thin: dual regulation of insect flight muscle and cardiac muscle compared.J Muscle Res Cell Motil2019https://conductscience.org/library/papers/31292801PubMed
31,249,348Effect of myofibril passive elastic properties on the mechanical communication between motor proteins on adjacent sarcomeres.Sci Rep2019https://conductscience.org/library/papers/31249348PubMed
31,096,839Milk-whey diet substantially suppresses seizure-like phenotypes of paraShu, a Drosophila voltage-gated sodium channel mutant.J Neurogenet2019https://conductscience.org/library/papers/31096839PubMed
30,959,804Insights into Actin-Myosin Interactions within Muscle from 3D Electron Microscopy.Int J Mol Sci2019https://conductscience.org/library/papers/30959804PubMed
30,150,876Comments to Recent Studies Showing Systemic Mechanisms Enabling Drosophila Larvae to Recover From Stress-Induced Damages.Int J Insect Sci2018https://conductscience.org/library/papers/30150876PubMed

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