Movie S10.

A-band extraction followed by small stretch. Movie shows the microperfusion being used to extract one A-band at a time. After each extraction, the myofibril is stretched by ∼1 μm. Before the last contraction, the myofibril is returned to the original length.

Microfluidic perfusion shows intersarcomere dynamics within single skeletal muscle myofibrils

Felipe de Souza Leite, Fabio C. Minozzo, David Altman, and Dilson E. Rassier

PNAS. 2017. 114:8794-8799 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1700615114