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. 1984 Jun;45(6):1159–1165. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(84)84264-2

Light diffraction studies of single muscle fibers as a function of fiber rotation.

W G Gilliar, W S Bickel, W F Bailey
PMCID: PMC1435000  PMID: 6611174

Abstract

Light diffraction patterns from single glycerinated frog semitendinosus muscle fibers were examined photographically and photoelectrically as a function of diffraction angle and fiber rotation. The total intensity diffraction pattern indicates that the order maxima change both position and intensity periodically as a function of rotation angle. The total diffracted light, light diffracted above and below the zero-order plane, and light diffracted into individual orders gives information about the fiber's longitudinal and rotational structure and its noncylindrical symmetry.

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