
Muscular Dystrophies
Description
Key Features
- Valuable insights into the muscular dystrophies, including treatment, diagnosis, and care and patient management
- A comprehensive compilation of the combined wisdom of the most highly regarded physicians, experts, and scientists studying the muscular dystrophies
- An evaluation of the way advances in molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, and other biological sciences continue to advance the study of these disorders
Table of Contents
Series Editors
Handbook of Clinical Neurology 3rd Series
Foreword
Preface
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Overview of the muscular dystrophies
Chapter 2: Dystrophinopathies
Chapter 3: Sarcoglycanopathies
Chapter 4: Congenital muscular dystrophies
Chapter 5: The collagen VI-related myopathies
Chapter 6: Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2A
Chapter 7: Dysferlinopathies
Chapter 8: Other limb-girdle muscular dystrophies
Chapter 9: Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2H and the role of TRIM32
Chapter 10: Caveolinopathies
Chapter 11: Myofibrillar myopathies
Chapter 12: Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
Chapter 13: Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy and scapuloperoneal syndromes
Chapter 14: Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
Chapter 15: Myotonic dystrophy types 1 and 2
Chapter 16: Distal muscular dystrophies
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 284
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2011
- Published: May 24, 2011
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780080450315
- eBook ISBN: 9780444534897