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American Zoologist 1989 29(2):593-603; doi:10.1093/icb/29.2.593
© 1989 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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The Search for a Biological Energy Transducer1

MANUEL F. MORALES
Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, California 94143

Muscle can be thought of as an engine—an assembly of devices capable of performing useful work at the expense of degrading fuel. Among the devices the most distinctive is the transducer, wherein energy of one form (chemical) is converted into energy of another form (mechanical). The author contends that until recently muscle research has examined the auxiliary devices, and that only currently is the transducer under study.


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