Research Catalog

Title

Dystrophin : gene, protein, and cell biology / edited by Susan C. Brown and Jack A. Lucy.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Susan C.
• Lucy, Jack A., 1929-

Description

xviii, 338 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Duchenne muscular dystrophy > Molecular aspects
• Dystrophin genes
• Dystrophin
• Muscular Dystrophies > microbiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Structure and mutation of the dystrophin gene / Andrea Amalfitano, Jill A. Rafael and Jeffrey S. Chamberlain -- 2. Protein structure / S. J. Winder, A. E. Knight and J. Kendrick-Jones -- 3. Dystrophin, utrophin and their associated proteins / J. M. Tinsley, D. J. Blake and K. E. Davies -- 4. Localization of dystrophin in skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle / Simon C. Watkins, Darl R. Swartz and Timothy J. Byers -- 5. Expression of the dystrophin complex in the brain / Dariusz C. Gorecki and Eric A. Barnard -- 6. The dystrophin family, agrin and construction of the neuromuscular junction / Robert Sealock and Stanley Froehner -- 7. Functions of dystrophin / Susan C. Brown and Jack A. Lucy -- 8. Pathophysiology of dystrophin deficiency: a clinical and biological enigma / J. Rafael M. Gorospe, Bronwen K. Nishikawa and Eric P. Hoffman -- 9. Muscle regeneration / M. J. Cullen --
• 10. Gene therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy / Gaynor Turner, Matthew G. Dunckley and George Dickson -- 11. Models of dystrophinopathy, pathological mechanisms and assessment of therapies / T. A. Patridge.

ISBN

0521550335 (hardbound)

LCCN

96037800

OCLC

ocm36017026

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries