The sarcomere and skeletal muscle disease / edited by Nigel G. Laing.

Other author Laing, Nigel G.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, ©2008.
Descriptionxxii, 227 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAdvances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 642
Advances in experimental medicine and biology v. 642. ^A103
Contents The sarcomere and sarcomerogenesis / Elisabeth Ehler and Mathias Gautel -- Skeletal muscle alpha-actin diseases / Kathryn N. North and Nigel G. Laing -- Nebulin : a giant chameleon / Katarina Pelin and Carina Wallgren-Pettersson -- Skeletal muscle disease due to mutations in tropomyosin, troponin, and cofilin / Nigel F. Clarke -- Investigations into the pathobiology of thin-filament myopathies / Biljana Ilkovski -- Mouse models for thin filament disease / Mai-Anh T. Nguyen and Edna C. Hardeman -- Thick filament diseases / Anders Oldfors and Phillipa J. Lamont --
Contents Acute quadriplegic myopathy : an acquired "myosinopathy" / Lars Larsson -- Third filament diseases / Bjarne Udd -- The Z-disk diseases / Duygu Selcen and Olli Carpén -- Intermediate filament diseases : desminopathy / Lev G. Goldfarb ... [et al.] -- Muscular integrity : a matter of interlinking distinct structures via plectin / Patryk Konieczny and Gerhard Wiche -- The sarcomere and the nucleus : functional links to hypertrophy, atrophy, and sarcopenia / Mathias Gautel -- Other model organisms for sarcomeric muscle diseases / John Sparrow, Simon M. Hughes, and Laurent Segalat -- Therapeutic approaches for the sarcomeric protein diseases / Kristen J. Nowak.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008033753
ISBN9780387848464
ISBN0387848460

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Laupus Books - Stacks WE 550 S243 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold