The Sarcomere and Skeletal Muscle Disease

1. The Sarcomere and Sarcomerogenesis
Elisabeth Ehler, Mathias Gautel

2. Skeletal Muscle Alpha-Actin Diseases
Kathryn N. North, Nigel G. Laing

3. Nebulin—A Giant Chameleon
Katarina Pelin, Carina Wallgren-Pettersson

4. Skeletal Muscle Disease Due to Mutations in Tropomyosin, Troponin and Cofilin
Nigel F. Clarke

5. Investigations into the Pathobiology of Thin-Filament Myopathies
Biljana Ilkovski

6. Mouse Models for Thin Filament Disease
Mai-Anh T. Nguyen, Edna C. Hardeman

7. Thick Filament Diseases
Anders Oldfors, Phillipa J. Lamont

8. Acute Quadriplegic Myopathy: An Acquired “Myosinopathy”
Lars Larsson

9. Third Filament Diseases
Bjarne Udd

10. The Z-Disk Diseases
Duygu Selcen, Olli Carpén

11. Intermediate Filament Diseases: Desminopathy
Lev G. Goldfarb, Montse Olivé, Patrick Vicart, Hans H. Goebel

12. Muscular Integrity—A Matter of Interlinking Distinct Structures via Plectin
Patryk Konieczny, Gerhard Wiche

13. The Sarcomere and the Nucleus: Functional Links to Hypertrophy, Atrophy and Sarcopenia
Mathias Gautel

14. Other Model Organisms for Sarcomeric Muscle Diseases
John Sparrow, Simon M. Hughes, Laurent Segalat

15. Therapeutic Approaches for the Sarcomeric Protein Diseases
Kristen J. Nowak

Keywords: Biomedicine, Biomedicine general, Human Physiology