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Muscle Thixotropy: More than Just Cross-Bridges? Response to Comment by Campbell and Lakie

Miklós S. Z. Kellermayer ^*, Pasquale Bianco ^* , Zsolt Mártonfalvi ^*, Attila Nagy ^*, András Kengyel ^*, Dávid Szatmári ^*, Tamás Huber ^*, Marco Linari , Marco Caremani  and Vincenzo Lombardi 

^* Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
Laboratorio di Fisiologia, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy

Correspondence: Address reprint requests to Miklós S. Z. Kellermayer, Dept. of Biophysics, University of Pécs, Faculty of Medicine, Szigeti út 12, Pécs H-7624, Hungary. Tel.: 36-72-536-271; Fax: 36-72-536-261; E-mail: miklos.kellermayer.jr{at}aok.pte.hu.

Although Campbell and Lakie in a Comment to the Editor in this issue of Biophysical Journal suggested that exclusive cross-bridge action is behind muscle thixotropy, recent findings and our preliminary observations suggest that additional mechanisms could also be involved.