Growth Factors and Cytokines in Skeletal Muscle Development, Growth, Regeneration and Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: White, Jason (Editor), Smythe, Gayle (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 900
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Human physiology.; Medical biochemistry.; Cytokines.; Growth factors.; Life Sciences.; Cytokines and Growth Factors.; Human Physiology.; Medical Biochemistry.

This book describes the diverse roles that growth factors and cytokines play in skeletal muscle. The extracellular environment has profound effects on the biology of skeletal muscle. The soluble portion of this environment includes a rich milieu of growth factors and cytokines which have been shown...

Table of Contents:

• Hepatocyte Growth Factor and Satellite Cell Activation
• Cytokine mediated control of muscle stem cell function
• The role of Leukemia inhibitory factor receptor signaling in skeletal muscle growth, injury and disease
• Function of Membrane-Associated Proteoglycans in the Regulation of Satellite Cell Growth
• The TGF-β signalling network in muscle development, adaptation and disease
• Adipokines in healthy skeletal muscle and metabolic disease
• Role of growth factors in modulation of the microvasculature in adult skeletal muscle.