Contractility refers to the ability for self- contraction, especially of the muscles or similar active biological tissue *

Contractile ring In molecular biology, an actomyosin contractile ring is a prominent structure during cytokinesis.Cheffings TH, Burroughs NJ, Balasubramanian MK. (2016). Actomyosin Ring Formation and Tension Generation in Eukaryotic Cytokinesis. Curr Biol. 26(15): ...

in cytokinesis *

Contractile vacuole A contractile vacuole (CV) is a sub-cellular structure (organelle) involved in osmoregulation. It is found predominantly in protists and in unicellular algae. It was previously known as pulsatile or pulsating vacuole. Overview The contractile v ...

Muscle contraction Muscle contraction is the activation of tension-generating sites within muscle cells. In physiology, muscle contraction does not necessarily mean muscle shortening because muscle tension can be produced without changes in muscle length, such as ...

Myocardial contractility Myocardial contractility represents the innate ability of the heart muscle (cardiac muscle or myocardium) to contract. The ability to produce changes in force during contraction result from incremental degrees of binding between different types of t ...

*See contractile cell for an overview of cell types in humans.

See also