Muscle Biopsy

1. Cover image - p. ii 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Half Title - p. i 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. Preface to the Fifth Edition - p. vii 7. Acknowledgements - p. ix 8. List of Abbreviations - p. xi 9. List of Gene Symbols - p. xiii 10. Section A. The Biopsy: Normal and Diseased Muscle - p. xvi 11. 1. The Procedure of Muscle Biopsy - p. 2 12. 2. Histological and Histochemical Stains and Reactions - p. 14 13. 3. Normal Muscle - p. 24 14. 4. Histological and Histochemical Changes - p. 46 15. 5. Ultrastructural Changes - p. 78 16. 6. Immunohistochemistry and Immunoblotting - p. 140 17. 7. How to Read a Biopsy - p. 183 18. Section B. Pathological Muscle: Individual Diseases - p. 195 19. 8. Classification of Neuromuscular Disorders - p. 198 20. 9. Neurogenic Disorders - p. 201 21. 10. Muscular Dystrophies and Allied Disorders I: Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy - p. 214 22. 11. Muscular Dystrophies and Allied Disorders II: Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophies - p. 237 23. 12. Muscular Dystrophies and Allied Disorders III: Congenital Muscular Dystrophies and Associated Disorders - p. 261 24. 13. Muscular Dystrophies and Allied Disorders IV: Emery–Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy and Similar Syndromes - p. 286 25. 14. Muscular Dystrophies and Allied Disorders V: Facioscapulohumeral, Myotonic and Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophies - p. 300 26. 15. Congenital Myopathies and Related Disorders - p. 312 27. 16. Myofibrillar Myopathies and Other Myopathies with Rimmed Vacuoles - p. 361 28. 17. Metabolic Myopathies I: Glycogenoses - p. 389 29. 18. Metabolic Myopathies II: Lipid-Related Disorders and Mitochondrial Myopathies - p. 408 30. 19. Myopathies Associated with Systemic Disorders and Ageing - p. 447 31. 20. Ion Channel Disorders - p. 456 32. 21. Myasthenic Syndromes - p. 468 33. 22. Inflammatory Myopathies - p. 479 34. 23. Toxic and Drug-Induced Myopathies - p. 502 35. Appendix 1. Glossary of Genetic Terms - p. 515 36. Appendix 2. Useful Websites - p. 517 37. Index - p. 519