"Muscle Cell and Tissue: Current Status of Research Field" ed. by Kunihiro Sakuma

This book deals with current progress and perspectives in a variety of topics on the skeletal and smooth muscle, stem cells, regeneration, disease or therapeutics. The book can be interesting for graduate students, teachers, physicians, executives and researchers in the field of molecular biology and regenerative medicine.

In order to complete tissue regeneration, various cells (neuronal, skeletal and smooth) interact coordinately with each other.
Novel applications for cell and tissue engineering including cell therapy, tissue models and disease pathology modeling are introduced. This book also deals with the differentiation/de-differentiation process of vascular smooth muscle cells in health and disease. Furthermore, natural products to reverse metabolic syndromes are descriptively reviewed.

Contents
1. Current Status of Research Field in Muscle Tissue
2. The Role of Glucose and Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Development of Insulin Resistance in Skeletal Muscle
3. Molecular and Cellular Markers in Skeletal Muscle Damage after Acute Voluntary Exercise Containing Eccentric Muscle Contractions
4. Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Human Skeletal Muscle Metabolism in Training and Disease
5. Skeletal Muscle Fiber Types in Neuromuscular Diseases
6. Hereditary Myopathies
7. Making Skeletal Muscle from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
8. A Novel Functional In Vitro Model that Recapitulates Human Muscle Disorders
9. Role of Stem Cells and Extracellular Matrix in the Regeneration of Skeletal Muscle
10. Skeletal Muscle as a Therapeutic Target for Natural Products to Reverse Metabolic Syndrome
11. Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell
12. The Role of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in the Physiology and Pathophysiology of Blood Vessels
13. The Dichotomy of Vascular Smooth Muscle Differentiation/De- Differentiation in Health and Disease
14. Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells (VSMCs) in Blood Vessel Tissue Engineering: The Use of Differentiated Cells or Stem Cells as VSMC Precursors
15. Methods and Model Systems Used to Study Pregnant Human Uterine Smooth Muscle
16. Morphology of Right Atrium Myocytes


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