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Title

Molecular biology of muscle / Society for Experimental Biology ; edited by Alicia El Haj.

Publication

Cambridge, England : Published for the Society for Experimental Biology by The Company of Biologists Limited, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 1992.

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Additional Authors

• Haj, Alicia.
• Society for Experimental Biology (Great Britain)

Description

[iii], 382 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology ; no. 46

Uniform Title

Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology ; no. 46.

Subject

• Muscles > Molecular aspects
• Muscles > Cytochemistry
• Molecular Biology
• Muscles
• Muscle Development
• Cell Differentiation
• Transcription, Genetic

Note

• Proceedings of a meeting held at the University of Birmingham, England, 8-12 September 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Molecular biology of muscle cell differentiation. Eclipse of the identifiable myoblast -- Regulating the myogenic regulators -- The consequences of a constitutive expressions of MyoD1 in ES cells and mouse embryos -- Regulation of myogenin expression in normal and transformed myogenic cell lines -- Inhibition of in vitro muscle differentiation by the immortalizing oncogene Py Lt-ag -- A cell division counter exists in the chick embryo myogenic lineage -- Multimeric structures influence the binding activity of bHLH muscle regulatory factors -- Isolation and functional comparison of Dmyd, the Drosophila homologue of the vertebrate myogenic determination genes, with CMD1.
• Comparative Muscle Genes. Drosophila actin mutants and the study of myofibrillar assembly and function -- Expression of actin isoforms in Artemia -- Switches in fish myosin genes induced by environment temperature in muscle of the carp -- Regulation of muscle gene expression in crustacea over the moult cycle -- cDNA cloning and sequence comparisons of human and chicken muscle C-protein and 86 kD protein -- Multiple products of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene -- The role of the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor gene in malignant hyperthermia.
• Molecular biology of muscle development. Expression of muscle genes in the mouse embryo -- Molecular analysis of protein sorting during biogenesis of muscle cytoarchitecture -- Cardiac troponin T gene expression in muscle -- Gene expression during cardiac development -- Regulation of myosin heavy chain and actin isogenes during cardiac growth and hypertrophy -- Carbonic anhydrase 3(CA3), a mesodermal marker -- A molecular approach towards the understanding of early heart development : an emerging synthesis.
• Transcriptional control of muscle genes. Reciprocal changes in myosin isoform expression in rabbit fast skeletal muscle resulting from the application and removal of chronic electrical stimulation -- Fast-to-slow transition in myosin heavy chain expression of rabbit muscle fibres induced by chronic low-frequency stimulation -- Regulation of insulin-like growth factor 1 gene expression in skeletal muscle -- Activation of muscle-specific transcription by myogenic helix-loop-helix proteins -- Positive and negative gene regulation in muscle -- CIS regulating elements which control in vivo alternative splicing of the chicken b̓ð tropomyosin primary transcript -- The cytoplasmic translational inhibitory RNA of chick embryonic muscle : cloning and sequence of subspecies which is antisense RNA.

ISBN

0948601353

OCLC

• 28892111
• ocm28892111

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