Research Catalog

Title

Connective tissue and its heritable disorders : molecular, genetic, and medical aspects / editors, Peter M. Royce and Beat Steinmann.

Publication

New York : Wiley-Liss, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Royce, Peter M.
• Steinmann, Beat U.

Description

xiii, 709 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subject

• Connective Tissue Diseases > genetics
• Connective tissues > Genetic aspects
• Connective tissues > Molecular aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Peter M. Royce and Beat Steinmann -- Introduction: Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue: A Personal Account of the Origins, Evolution, Validation, and Expansion of a Concept / Victor A. McKusick. Ch. 1. Introduction to Medical Genetics / Bryan Sykes -- Biology of the Extracellular Matrix. Ch. 2, Pt. I. Morphology of Connective Tissue: Structure of the Skin and Tendon / Karen A. Holbrook and Lynne T. Smith. Ch. 2, Pt. II. Morphology of Connective Tissue: Cartilage / William A. Horton. Ch. 2, Pt. III. Morphology of Connective Tissue: Bone / Robert K. Schenk, Rolf Felix and Willy Hofstetter. Ch. 3, Pt. I. Collagen: The Collagen Family: Structure, Assembly, and Organization in the Extracellular Matrix / Cay M. Kielty, Ian Hopkinson and Michael E. Grant. Ch. 3, Pt. II. Collagen: Gene Structure / Mon-Li Chu and Darwin J. Prockop. Ch. 4. Elastin / Joel Rosenbloom. Ch. 5. Glycosylated Matrix Proteins / Dick Heinegard and Ake Oldberg.
• Ch. 6. Adhesive Glycoproteins / Klaus von der Mark and Simon Goodman. Ch. 7. Keratins / E. Birgitte Lane. Ch. 8. Bone / Ian R. Dickson. Ch. 9. Extracellular Matrix Degradation / Gillian Murphy and John J. Reynolds -- Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue. Ch. 10. Osteogenesis Imperfecta / Peter H. Byers. Ch. 11. The Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome / Beat Steinmann, Peter M. Royce and Andrea Superti-Furga. Ch. 12. Cutis Laxa and Premature Aging Syndromes / Jouni Uitto, Michael J. Fazio and Angela M. Christiano. Ch. 13. Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum / Kenneth H. Neldner. Ch. 14. The Marfan Syndrome / Reed E. Pyeritz. Ch. 15. The Homocystinurias / Flemming Skovby. Ch. 16. Disorders of Copper Transport: Menkes Disease and the Occipital Horn Syndrome / David M. Danks. Ch. 17. Epidermolysis Bullosa / Leena Bruckner-Tuderman. Ch. 18. Prolidase Deficiency / Peter M. Royce and Beat Steinmann. Ch. 19. [alpha]1-Antitrypsin Deficiency / Diane Wilson Cox.
• Ch. 20. Osteopetrosis and the Heritable Forms of Rickets / Michael P. Whyte. Ch. 21. Alcaptonuria / B. L. Hazleman and A. O. Adebajo. Ch. 22. Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva / J. Michael Connor. Ch. 23. Disorders of Lysosomal Enzymes / J. G. Leroy and U. Wiesmann. Ch. 24. The Chondrodysplasias / William A. Horton and Jacqueline T. Hecht. Ch. 25. Disorders of Keratinization / Howard P. Baden and Joseph C. Kvedar.

ISBN

0471588199

LCCN

92049777

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries