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1. Collinsworth, Amy M. and Torgan, Carol E. and Nagda, Suneel N. and Spivey, Eric C. and Kraus, William E. and Truskey, George A., Orientation of mammalian skeletal muscle following a unidirectional stretch, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED, vol. 35 (1997), pp. 275 - 276 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/12)

   Abstract:
   Mammalian skeletal muscle cells were cultured in a stretch device developed in a previous study. The membrane substrate on which the muscle was grown was characterized and found to exhibit linear strain behavior. Stretched fibers aligned at a smaller angle to the direction of stretch were significantly longer than control fibers. Both control and stretched fibers positively stained for α-actinin.

   Keywords:
   Muscle;Cell culture;Bone;Proteins;Cell membranes;Biomedical equipment;