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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Current Basic and Pathological Approaches to the Function of Muscle Cells and Tissues - From Molecules to Humans
Edited by Haruo Sugi, ISBN 978-953-51-0679-1, Hard cover, 390 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published July 18, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/3003 
This volume contains 17 short review articles classified into 3 parts. Part I consists of 7 articles dealing with basic aspects of contractile mechanism in skeletal and smooth muscle cells and also function of melanocytes having many properties common to those of smooth muscles. Part II and Part III contain articles dealing with pathological aspects of cardiac and smooth muscle cell functions, and dealing with factors influencing structure and function of cardiac and smooth muscle cells and tissues. The Editor believes that these articles are stimulating and informative for readers interested in basic, pathological and clinical aspects of muscle cells and tissues.
Dr. Haruo Sugi
Tokyo University, Japan
Dr. Haruo Sugi was born in 1933 in Tokyo, and graduated from Postgraduate School of Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo with Ph.D. degree in 1962, and appointed to be Instructor in Physiology at the University of Tokyo. From 1965 to 1967, Sugi stayed in USA as a research associate at Columbia University and as a visiting scientist in NIH. In 1973, he became Professor and Chairman in the Department of Physiology, Teikyo University. From 1994 to 2006, Dr. Sugi was chairman of Muscle Commission in the International Union of Physiological Sciences. In 2004, he retired from his position in Teikyo University, and is now Emeritus Professor of Teikyo University.
Editorials
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Current Basic and Pathological Approaches to the Function of Muscle Cells and Tissues - From Molecules to Humans
This volume contains 17 short review articles classified into 3 parts. Part I consists of 7 articles dealing with basic aspects of contractile mechanism in skeletal and smooth muscle cells and also function of melanocytes having many properties common to those of smooth muscles. Part II and Part III contain articles dealing with pathological aspects of cardiac and smooth muscle cell functions, and dealing with factors influencing structure and function of cardiac and smooth muscle cells and tissues. The Editor believes that these articles are stimulating and informative for readers interested in basic, pathological and clinical aspects of muscle cells and tissues.
Publications
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Book Chapter
The Gas Environmental Chamber as a Powerful Tool to Study Structural Changes of Living Muscle Thick Filaments Coupled with ATP Hydrolysis
in the book "Current Basic and Pathological Approaches to the Function of Muscle Cells and Tissues - From Molecules to Humans" edited by Haruo Sugi, ISBN 978-953-51-0679-1, InTech, July 7, 2012 -
Book Chapter
Evidence for the Essential Role of Myosin Head Lever Arm Domain and Myosin Subfragment-2 in Muscle Contraction
in the book "Skeletal Muscle - From Myogenesis to Clinical Relations" edited by Julianna Cseri, ISBN 978-953-51-0712-5, InTech, August 8, 2012