Muscle aging
Subtitle: inclusion-body myositis and myopathies
By: edited by Valerie Askanas and King Engel
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405196468
Subjects: Physiopathology; Aging; Inclusion Body Myositis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ageing of the human neuromuscular system : pathological aspects / W. King Engel and Valerie Askanas; title: Aging of the human neuromuscular system : clinical considerations / W. King Engel and Valerie Askanas; title: Aging of the human neuromuscular system : patient vignettes / W. King Engel, Shalini Mahajan, Valerie Askanas; title: Mitochondrial changes in ageing with particular reference to muscle, and possible clinical consequences / Salvatore DiMauro, Eric Schon, Michio Hirano; title: Protein degradation in ageing cells and mitochondria : relevance to the neuromuscular system / Jenny Ngo and Kelvin Davies; title: Human muscle protein metabolism in relation to exercise and aging : potential therapeutic applications / Micah J. Drummond, Blake B. Rasmussen; title: Pathogenesis of sporadic inclusion-body myositis / Valerie Askanas, W. King Engel, Anna Nogalska; title: Inflammatory and autoimmune features of inclusion-body myositis / Marinos Dalakas; title: Clinical symptoms, physical findings, and diagnostic investigations / Frank Mastaglia; title: Pathologic diagnostic criteria of s-IBM and h-IBMS muscle biopsies / Valerie Askanas and W. King Engel; title: Function and mutations of the GNE gene leading to DMRV/h-IBM, animal models, and potential treatments / May Malicdan, Satoru Noguchi, Ichizo Nishino; title: Clinical and ethnic spectrum, laboratory data, and epidemiology of h-IBM due to GNE mutations / Zohar Argov, Ishizo Nishino, Ikiyo Nonaka; title: Consequences of the h-IBM characteristic GNE mutations on muscle proteins in vivo and in vitro / Aldobrando Broccolini and Massimiliano Mirabella; title: Function and structure of VCP mutations leading to h-IBM / Cezary Wojcik; title: Clinical spectrum, including myopathy, Paget's disease, and fronto-temporal dementia : experimental models of VCP mutations, and potential treatments / Virginia Kimonis; title: Animal models of h-IBM due to VCP mutation / Nisha M. Badders and Paul Taylor.