A comprehensive review of skeletal muscle energy use.

What is it about?

Muscles extract the energy in food and convert it into mechanical wo; thus, energy is central to understanding muscles. This comprehensive review of energetic aspects of muscle contraction explores our knowledge of how muscles work in terms of energy. The article covers the different process that use energy in muscles, how biochemical changes relate to energy changes and the efficiency of contraction.

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Why is it important?

This is the most thorough review of skeletal muscle energeics in the last 30 years. It provides detailed descriptions of energy chnges from non-metabolic sources, a comparison of data from intact and permeabilised fibres, an assessment of the energy available from ATP and a detailed summary of the efficiency of contraction. There is no other recent review of muscle energetics of this depth and detail.