Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Muscle Cell and Tissue - Current Status of Research Field

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Kunihiro Sakuma
Kunihiro Sakuma

Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Japan

Published10 October 2018

Doi10.5772/intechopen.71591

ISBN978-1-78984-006-3

Print ISBN978-1-78984-005-6

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-1-83881-587-5

Copyright year2018

Number of pages370

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2. The Role of Glucose and Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Development of Insulin Resistance in Skeletal Muscle

By Sithandiwe Eunice Mazibuko-Mbeje, Phiwayinkosi V. Dludla, Bongani B. Nkambule, Nnini Obonye and Johan Louw

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5. Skeletal Muscle Fiber Types in Neuromuscular Diseases

By Jennifer Glaser and Masatoshi Suzuki

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6. Hereditary Myopathies

By Arlek Marion González-Jamett, Jorge Alfredo Bevilacqua and Ana María Cárdenas Díaz

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7. Making Skeletal Muscle from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

By Ken’ichiro Nogami, Matthias Blanc, Fusako Takemura, Shin’ichi Takeda and Yuko Miyagoe-Suzuki

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8. A Novel Functional In Vitro Model that Recapitulates Human Muscle Disorders

By Iván Toral-Ojeda, Garazi Aldanondo, Jaione Lasa-Elgarresta, Haizpea Lasa-Fernandez, Camila Vesga-Castro, Vincent Mouly, Adolfo López de Munain and Ainara Vallejo-Illarramendi

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9. Role of Stem Cells and Extracellular Matrix in the Regeneration of Skeletal Muscle

By Andrew Dunn, Madison Marcinczyk, Muhamed Talovic, Krishna Patel, Gabriel Haas and Koyal Garg

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10. Skeletal Muscle as a Therapeutic Target for Natural Products to Reverse Metabolic Syndrome

By Sithandiwe Eunice Mazibuko-Mbeje, Phiwayinkosi V. Dludla, Bongani B. Nkambule, Nnini Obonye and Johan Louw

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11. Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell

By Ning Zhou, Shaunrick Stoll, Christiana Leimena and Hongyu Qiu

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12. The Role of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in the Physiology and Pathophysiology of Blood Vessels

By Lucie Bacakova, Martina Travnickova, Elena Filova, Roman Matějka, Jana Stepanovska, Jana Musilkova, Jana Zarubova and Martin Molitor

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13. The Dichotomy of Vascular Smooth Muscle Differentiation/De- Differentiation in Health and Disease

By Mariana di Luca, Roya Hakimjavadi, Denise Burtenshaw, Emma Fitzpatrick, Pattie Mathiue, Catriona Lally, Eileen M Redmond and Paul A Cahill

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14. Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells (VSMCs) in Blood Vessel Tissue Engineering: The Use of Differentiated Cells or Stem Cells as VSMC Precursors

By Lucie Bacakova, Martina Travnickova, Elena Filova, Roman Matejka, Jana Stepanovska, Jana Musilkova, Jana Zarubova and Martin Molitor

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