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The sliding-filament model

The sliding-filament model
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Description: Above, during muscle contraction, thin filaments slide inward past thick filaments, reducing the width of the sarcomere.Right, molecular mechanism of contraction. For clarity, we show only two myosin heads. A head binds repeatedly to an actin filament and slides it toward the center of the sarcomere.

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