Table of Contents

Contributors; Preface; 1. A. F. Huxley: an essay on his personality and his work on nerve physiology Robert Stampfli; 2. A. F. Huxley's research on muscle Robert M. Simmons; 3. Ultra-slow, slow, intermediate and fast inactivation of human sodium channels Reinhardt Rüdel and Bernd Fakler; 4. The structure of the triad: local stimulation experiments then and now Clara Lara Rranzini-Armstrong; 5. The calcium-induced calcium release mechanism in skeletal muscle and its modification by drugs Makoto Endo; 6. Hypodynamic tension changes in the frog heart Rolf Niedergerke and Sally Page; 7. Regulation of contractile proteins in heart muscle Saul Winegrad; 8. Differential activation of myofibrils during fatigue in twitch skeletal muscle fibres of the frog Hugo Gonzalez-Serratos and Maria del Carmen Garcia; 9. High-speed digital imaging microscopy of isolated muscle cells Stuart R. Taylor and Kenneth P. Ross; 10. Inotropic mechanism of myocardium Lincoln E. Ford; 11. Regulation of muscle contraction: dual role of calcium and cross-bridges Albert M. Gordon; 12. Fibre types in Xenopus muscle and their functional properties Jan Lännergren; 13. An electron microscopists's role in experiments on isolated muscle fibres Lucy M. Brown; 14. Structural changes accompanying mechanical events in muscle contraction Robert M. Simmons; 15. Mechano-chemistry of negatively strained cross-bridges in skeletal muscle Yale E. Goldman; 16. The force response during steady lengthening of active single muscle fibres of the frog Vincenzo Lombardi.