Progress in Heritable Soft Connective Tissue Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Halper, Jaroslava (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 802
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Internal medicine.; Cell physiology.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Cell Physiology.; Internal Medicine.

This volume is a reference handbook focusing on diseases like Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Loeys-Dietz syndrome and other heritable soft connective tissue diseases. The book presents detailed information for both basic scientists and for clinicians seeing patients. It is also a stepping...

Table of Contents:

• Structure, physiology and biochemistry of collagens
• Basic components of connective tissues and extracellular matrix
• Proteoglycans and diseases of soft tissues
• Advances in the use of growth factors for treatment of disorders of soft tissues
• Clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of the Marfan syndrome
• Loeys-Dietz syndrome
• Connective Tissue Disorders and Cardiovascular Complications: The indomitable role of Transforming Growth Factor-beta signaling
• The Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
• Ehlers–Danlos syndrome associated with glycosaminoglycan abnormalities
• Cutis laxa
• Collagen type VI myopathies
• Mouse Models in Tendon and Ligament Research
• Connective tissue disorders in domestic animals.