Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: the activation of striated muscle
  • 2. Dielectric properties and membrane function
  • 3. The measurement of membrane capacitance in striated muscle
  • 4. The charge-movement phenomenon in striated muscle
  • 5. Functional components of the non-linear charge
  • 6. Charge-movement components in skeletal muscle
  • 7. Activation schemes for intramembrane charge in skeletal muscle
  • 8. Quantitative description of the steady-state charge
  • 9. Kinetic descriptions of the intramembrane charge
  • 10. Physiological consequences of voltage-sensing processes
  • 11. Implications of charge-movement components for excitation-contraction coupling.