Conference Groups 2005

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CD-ROMs are on reserve in the Library. All programs are available during the entire course.

Links:

This site from the University of Bristol has a set of good animations for the material in the first section of the course.

1. http://www.pys.bris.ac.uk/electrophysiology/wwwroot/default.htm

2. This site is meant for teaching and shows the actin and myosin interaction. It is the most limited for the three but worth a look.
   http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/movies/actin_myosin.html
3. This one, by Gary Matthews, is meant for teaching and has several pages with notes with notes and excellent animations beginning with activation of the NMJ.
   http://www.blackwellscience.com/matthews/myosin.html
4. This one is listed last because it is the most accurate and detailed. It is the home page of K.C. Holes at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg.  It has a rather long essay on the molecular basis of muscle contraction.  The best parts are the figures of actin and myosin structure and the muscle movie of actin-myosin interaction. This is the most detailed and accurate movie, http://www.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/~holmes/
5. This site, from Cytokinetics, has a movie that begins with the heart contracting and zooms in to show actin and myosin interaction in cardiac muscle.  You choose windows or Mac and then be patient while the movie loads.
   http://www.cytokinetics.com/cyto/contractility
6. This page uses isolated cardiac myositis to show how muscle fibers contract.
   http://library.thinkquest.org/C003758/Function/How%20Cardiac%20Muscle%20Contracts.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=1206

7. Very useful programs from Columbia that Dr. Jorde showed in his lecture.
   http://www.columbia.edu/ccnmtl/draft/heart/exer.html