Skeletal Muscle Repair and Regeneration (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789048177189)

Since the middle of the last century we have progressively built up a comprehensive descriptive model of the allied mechanisms that maintain our muscles at a size and strength appropriate to the functional demands upon them and that rapidly repair damaged muscles. This volume is an assemblage of the collective experience from the pick of major research groups investigating these aspects of muscle cell biology. The book adopts a non-specialist style of presentation from specialist researchers. The topics range from correlation of changes in pattern of gene expression with the histological sequence during a regenerative episode to the distinctive insult-specific patterns of structural and functional outcome at the other end of the spectrum. The middle ground - who is doing what in this complex process - constitutes the meat of this sandwich.