The most comprehensive reference on neuromuscular diseases and disorders! Edited by the world’s leading authority, this is the reference of choice for neurologists who a need a complete, authoritative work on muscle diseases and disorders. Features over 100 color illustrations of clinical, pathological, and imaging studies in myology. Includes important information on muscular dystrophy and inflammatory disease as well as a better understanding of mitochondrial diseases and the genetic basis of inherited diseases.
1 The Embryonic Origin of Muscle 2 Morphogenesis of skeletal muscle fibers 3 Satellite and stem cells; muscle regeneration 4 The Diversity of Muscle Fibers and its Origin 5 Physiology of Motor Units and their Control 6 The extraocular muscles, Muscle contraction 7 The Structure of Contractile Filaments 8 The Structure of Vertebrate Muscle Myosin 9 The Cross Bridge Cycle and the Energetics of Muscle Contraction
The control of muscle fiber activity
10 Ionic Channels and their Function in Muscle Activity 11 The Sarcoplasmic Reticulum and the Transverse Tubules 12 Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Skeletal Muscle 13 Activation of the Contractile Mechanism by Calcium 14 The Proteins of the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
Neuromuscular transmission
15 The Neuromuscular Junction 16 Neuromuscular Transmission 17 Acetylcholine receptors:: Structure function 18 Function and Molecular Structure of Acetylcholinesterase
Muscle as a tissue
19 The Subcortical Cytoskeleton and the Plasma Membrane 20 The Extracellular Matrix 21 The Muscle Spindle 22 The Microcirculation of Muscle 23 Protein and Amino Acid Metabolism in Muscle 24 Lysosomal Metabolism and its Relevance to Skeletal Muscle
GENERAL APPROACHES TO NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES
25 The clinical examination 26 Electrodiagnosis of Muscle disorders 27 Muscle Imaging 28 Noninvasive evaluation of metabolic myopathies 29 The Muscle Biopsy 30 Basic Reactions of Muscle 31 Ultrastructural changes in diseased muscle 32 Immune Mechanisms in Muscle Diseases 33 The Tools of Molecular Genetics And Their Application to the Study Of Muscle Diseases