Myology 2vols

SCIENTIFIC BASIS
Development, Differentiation and Diversity
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
DISEASES OF MUSCLE
Muscular Dystrophies
34 Dystrophinopathies

35 Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy

36 Myotonic Dystrophy
37 Limb Girdle Dystrophies

38 Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy and Scapuloperoneal Syndrome

39 Bethlem Myopathy

40 Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy

41 X-Linked Vacuolar Myopathy

42 Distal Muscular Dystrophies

43 Myofibrillar Myopathies

44 Congenital Muscular Dystrophies

45 Cardiomyopathies Associated with Muscular Dystrophies
Altered Excitability of the Cell Membrane
46 Nondystrophic Channelopathies: Myotonias and Per Paralyses

47 Neuromyotonia
Inflammatory Myopathies
48 Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis Syndromes

49 Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis

50 Inclusion Body Myopathy

51 Virus Related Muscle Diseases

52 Parasitic Myositis

53 Other Inflammatory Myopathies
Congenital Myopathies
54 Congenital Myopathies
Metabolic Disorders Affecting Muscle
55 Nonlysosomal Glycogenoses (and review of carbohydrate
metabolism)

56 Acid Maltase Deficiency

57 Disorders of Lipid Metabolism (and review of lipid metabolism)

58 Mitochondrial Diseases

59 Malignant Hyperthermia

60 Myoglobinura

61 Myopathies due to Drugs, Toxins, and Nutritional Deficiency

62 Endocrine Myopathies

63 Muscle Pain, Cramps, and Fatigue
Disturbances of Neuromuscular Transmission
64 Autoimmune Myasthenia Gravis

65 Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome

66 Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes
Neural Diseases
67 Motor Neuron Diseases in Children

68 Motor Neuron Diseases in Adults

69 Disease of Peripheral Nerves

70 Congenital Deformities