Georges Maréchal

TL;DR: Results show that EDL muscles from mdx mice are more vulnerable than their controls, supporting the structural role hypothesis for dystrophin and suggesting that contractions with stretches may contribute to the muscle damage and degeneration observed in DMD-patients.

TL;DR: A working hypothesis is suggested based on the concept that the actin filaments which enter the overlap region during a release are strained by the tetanic stress and therefore unable to make normal cross-bridges.

TL;DR: The ky gene is identified and the ky transcript encodes a novel protein that is detected only in skeletal muscle and heart that will allow detailed analysis of the impact of primary myopathy on idiopathic scoliosis in mice and man.

TL;DR: The rabbit inferior oblique muscle is a fast-twitch muscle endowed with a maximum velocity of shortening higher than that of fast- twitch skeletal muscle, but using a tetanic mechanical power lower than that produced by slow- twitch muscle: the combination of these properties makes it ideally suited to move an ocular globe of low mass at high velocity.

TL;DR: Native myosin isozymes of rat muscles have been isolated by electrophoreses in non-dissociating conditions and Regenerates of minced EDL or SOL muscles in adult animals had no native myos in the third day after surgery.