The sarcomere and skeletal muscle disease
By: edited by Nigel G. Laing.
Contributors: Laing, Nigel G.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 642
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media; Landes Bioscience
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y; Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780387848464
Subjects: Muscles -- Diseases; Muscular Diseases; Muscle, Skeletal -- physiopathology; Sarcomeres
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sarcomere and sarcomerogenesis / Elisabeth Ehler and Mathias Gautel; title: Skeletal muscle alpha-actin diseases / Kathryn N. North and Nigel G. Laing; title: Nebulin : a giant chameleon / Katarina Pelin and Carina Wallgren-Pettersson; title: Skeletal muscle disease due to mutations in tropomyosin, troponin, and cofilin / Nigel F. Clarke; title: Investigations into the pathobiology of thin-filament myopathies / Biljana Ilkovski; title: Mouse models for thin filament disease / Mai-Anh T. Nguyen and Edna C. Hardeman; title: Thick filament diseases / Anders Oldfors and Phillipa J. Lamont; title: Acute quadriplegic myopathy : an acquired "myosinopathy" / Lars Larsson; title: Third filament diseases / Bjarne Udd; title: The Z-disk diseases / Duygu Selcen and Olli Carpén; title: Intermediate filament diseases : desminopathy / Lev G. Goldfarb ... [et al.]; title: Muscular integrity : a matter of interlinking distinct structures via plectin / Patryk Konieczny and Gerhard Wiche; title: The sarcomere and the nucleus : functional links to hypertrophy, atrophy, and sarcopenia / Mathias Gautel; title: Other model organisms for sarcomeric muscle diseases / John Sparrow, Simon M. Hughes, and Laurent Segalat; title: Therapeutic approaches for the sarcomeric protein diseases / Kristen J. Nowak.