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List of works by Massimo Reconditi

A combined mechanical and X-ray diffraction study of stretch potentiation in single frog muscle fibres

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

A mechanical model of the half-sarcomere which includes the contribution of titin

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Changes in conformation of myosin heads during the development of isometric contraction and rapid shortening in single frog muscle fibres

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Conformation of the myosin motor during force generation in skeletal muscle

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Contracting striated muscle has a dynamic I-band spring with an undamped stiffness 100 times larger than the passive stiffness

scientific article published on 03 January 2020

Force generation by skeletal muscle is controlled by mechanosensing in myosin filaments.

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Inotropic interventions do not change the resting state of myosin motors during cardiac diastole

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Interference fine structure and sarcomere length dependence of the axial x-ray pattern from active single muscle fibers.

scientific article

Is muscle powered by springs or motors?

scientific article published on 01 October 2016

Low temperature traps myosin motors of mammalian muscle in a refractory state that prevents activation

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Mechanics of myosin function in white muscle fibres of the dogfish, Scyliorhinus canicula

scientific article published on February 6, 2012

Mechanism of force generation by myosin heads in skeletal muscle

scientific article published in Nature

Minimum number of myosin motors accounting for shortening velocity under zero load in skeletal muscle.

scientific article published on 20 October 2016

Motion of myosin head domains during activation and force development in skeletal muscle

scientific article

Myosin filament activation in the heart is tuned to the mechanical task.

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN SMALL ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION FOR THE STUDY OF MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY.

scientific article published on October 2006

Sarcomere-length dependence of myosin filament structure in skeletal muscle fibres of the frog.

scientific article published on 16 December 2013

Size and speed of the working stroke of cardiac myosin in situ

scientific article published on 16 March 2016

Skeletal muscle resists stretch by rapid binding of the second motor domain of myosin to actin

scholarly article

Structural changes in myosin motors and filaments during relaxation of skeletal muscle

scientific article published on 03 August 2009

Structural changes in the myosin filament and cross-bridges during active force development in single intact frog muscle fibres: stiffness and X-ray diffraction measurements

scientific article published on 21 September 2006

Temperature dependence of the force-generating process in single fibres from frog skeletal muscle

scientific article published on 28 March 2003

The Stiffness of Skeletal Muscle in Isometric Contraction and Rigor: The Fraction of Myosin Heads Bound to Actin

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

The contributions of filaments and cross-bridges to sarcomere compliance in skeletal muscle

scientific article published on 11 July 2014

The force and stiffness of myosin motors in the isometric twitch of a cardiac trabecula and the effect of the extracellular calcium concentration

scientific article published on 27 May 2018

The mechanism of the force response to stretch in human skinned muscle fibres with different myosin isoforms

scientific article published on 10 October 2003

The mechanism of the resistance to stretch of isometrically contracting single muscle fibres

scientific article published on 30 November 2009

The myofilament elasticity and its effect on kinetics of force generation by the myosin motor

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

The myosin motor in muscle generates a smaller and slower working stroke at higher load.

scientific article

The non-linear elasticity of the muscle sarcomere and the compliance of myosin motors.

scientific article published on 16 December 2013

The structural basis of the increase in isometric force production with temperature in frog skeletal muscle

article

There is no experimental evidence for non-linear myofilament elasticity in skeletal muscle.

scientific article published in February 2010

Thick Filament Mechano-Sensing in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscles: A Common Mechanism Able to Adapt the Energetic Cost of the Contraction to the Task.

scientific article

X-ray diffraction studies of the contractile mechanism in single muscle fibres.

scientific article

X-ray interference studies of crossbridge action in muscle contraction: evidence from muscles during steady shortening

scientific article published on 25 August 2006

X-ray interference studies of crossbridge action in muscle contraction: evidence from quick releases

scientific article published on 01 September 2006