Myology ANNOTATION
"...important advances in the cellular and molecular understanding of muscular disorders have precipitated the wealth of new information presented here on such sujbects as muscular dystrophy, inflammation, mitochondrial disease,etc.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
SYNOPSIS
For the third edition of this major reference work, all chapters were revised or written anew, and eight new chapters were added: on extraocular muscles, immune mechanisms in muscle diseases, Bethlem myopathy, x-linked vacuolar myopathies, myofibrillar myopathies, cardio-myopathies associated with muscular dystrophies, generalized peripheral nerve hyper-excitability, and hereditary inclusion body myopathies. An international group of 97 specialists contributed 70 chapters, which are grouped into three major parts: scientific basis, general approaches to neuromuscular diseases, and diseases of muscle. Among the 36 chapters on diseases are 12 on muscular dystrophies. Other topics include parasitic myositis, disorders of lipid metabolism, myoglobinura, lysosomal metabolism and its relevance to skeletal muscle, neuromuscular transmission, the extracellular matrix, and molecular physiology of the cross-bridge cycle. Engel is at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn.; Franzini-Armstrong is in the department of cell and developmental biology at the U. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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