Disorders of Voluntary Muscle

Foreword Lord Walton of Detchant; Preface; Part I. Scientific Basis of Muscle Disease: 1. The structure and function of motor units Robert E. Burke; 2. Developmental biology of skeletal muscle Jeffrey B. Miller; 3. The molecular and cellular biology of muscle Susan C. Brown, Frank S. Walsh and George Dickson; 4. The molecular basis of muscle disease Louise V. B. Anderson; 5. Mitochondria Eric A. Shoubridge; 6. The sarcotubular system Kimby N. Barton and David H. MacLennan; 7. The extracellular matrix of skeletal muscle Paul C. Holland and Salvatore Carbonetto; 8. Aspects of skeletal muscle biochemistry in health and disease John M. Land; 9. The neuromuscular junction and neuromuscular transmission Angela Vincent; 10. The pathophysiology of excitation in skeletal muscle Robert L. Barchi; 11. Animal models of human muscle disease Barry J. Cooper; Part II. Methods of Investigation of Muscle Disease: 12. Applied physiology of muscle Eric L. Logigian and Richard L. Barbano; 13. Histochemistry and immunocytochemistry of muscle in health and disease Caroline A. Sewry and Victor Dubowitz; 14. Muscle pathology on semithin resin sections Stirling Carpenter; 15. Electron microscopy in the study of normal and diseased muscle Stirling Carpenter; 16. Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy of muscle D. J. Taylor, J. L. Fleckenstein and R. Lodi; Part III. Description of Muscle Disease: 17. The examination and investigation of the patient with muscle disease David Hilton-Jones and John T. Kissel; 18. The classification of muscle diseases Michael H. Brooke; 19. Dystrophinopathies Eric P. Hoffman; 20. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies Jean-Claude Kaplan, Jacques S. Beckmann and Michel Fardeau; 21. Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy Rabi Tawil and Robert C. Griggs; 22. Distal myopathies Richard J. Barohn and Robert C. Griggs; 23. Emery–Dreifuss dystrophy Kiichi Arahata; 24. Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy Bernard Brais; 25. Congenital muscular dystrophies Thomas Voit; 26. Congenital myopathies Hans H. Goebel; 27. Myotonic dystrophy Peter S. Harper; 28. The metabolic myopathies Richard T. Moxley III, Patrick Chinnery and Douglas Turnbull; 29. Oxidative phosphorylation diseases of muscle John M. Shoffner and Eric Shoubridge; 30. Ion channel disorders of muscle Louis J. Ptácek and Saïd Bendahhou; 31. Inflammatory myopathies Marinos C. Dalakos and George Karpati; 32. Myasthenia gravis and myasthenic syndromes: autoimmune and genetic disorders John Newsom-Davis and David Beeson; 33. Toxic and iatrogenic myopathies and neuromuscular transmission disorders Zohar Argov, Henry J. Kaminski, Ali Al-Mudallal and Robert L. Ruff; 34. Painful muscle syndromes Russell Lane; Part IV. The Principles of Management of Muscle Disease: 35. Genetic counselling in muscle disease K. Bushby; 36. The principles of treatment, prevention and rehabilitation: perspectives on future treatment Giovanni Meola, George Karpati and R. C. Griggs; Index.