Intermediate Filaments

Intermediate Filaments focuses on desmin and other intermediate filaments in disease and health. This new volume will serve as a resource for graduate students and researchers in the field.

List of contents

Desmin and Other Intermediate Filaments in Normal and Diseased Muscle.- Intermediate Filaments in Astrocytes in Health and Disease.- Neuronal Intermediate Filaments and Neurodegenerative Diseases.- Neurofilaments.- Keratin Intermediate Filaments and Diseases of the Skin.- The Keratin K6 Minifamily of Genes.- Transcriptional Regulation of Keratin Gene Expression.- Simple Epithelial Keratins.- Keratins as Targets in and Modulators of Liver Diseases.- The Search for Specific Keratin Functions.

Summary

Intermediate Filaments focuses on desmin and other intermediate filaments in disease and health. This new volume will serve as a resource for graduate students and researchers in the field.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jesu Paramio (Editor), Jesus Paramio (Editor), Jesús Paramio (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2006
• EAN: 9780387337807
• ISBN: 978-0-387-33780-7
• No. of pages: 150
• Weight: 434 g
• Illustrations: X, 150 p.
• Series: Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit; Molecular Biology Intelligence; Molecular Biology Intelligence; Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; C, Pathology, Medical microbiology & virology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Medical Microbiology, Cell Biology