E. Huxley and J. Hanson (1954) observed changes in the sarcomeres as muscle tissue shortened. They observed that one zone of the repeated sarcomere arrangement, the "A band," remained relatively ...

Numerous motor and structural proteins compose a highly ordered structure known as the sarcomere, the basic unit of muscle contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Sarcomeric myosin heavy chain ...

Meaghan started at UMass Lowell in the fall of 2019 where she joined Professor Jeffrey Moore's lab. Her research is focused on the mechanism of sarcomere proteins in heart muscle contraction. She aims ...