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Experiments on striated muscle have been carried out at the EMBL Outstation at DESY, Hamburg, using the electron–positron storage ring DORIS as a high-intensity X-ray source. The low-angle reflections from the myosin cross-bridges could be recorded more than 1,000 times more rapidly than with the best conventional X-ray sources, and could be followed during contraction with a time resolution of 10 ms.
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Huxley, H., Faruqi, A., Bordas, J. et al. The use of synchrotron radiation in time-resolved X-ray diffraction studies of myosin layer-line reflections during muscle contraction. Nature 284, 140–143 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/284140a0
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