Methods in Muscle Biology is a comprehensive laboratory guide that details the methods used in the study of muscle biology. The techniques included embrace cell, developmental, and molecular biology, as well as physiology, neurobiology, and medical research.
Embryological analysis of myogenesis: Avian somite transplantation - a
review of basic methods, C.P. Ordahl, B. Christ; Myogenesis in the mouse
embryos, M. Buckingham, G. Cossu; Myogenesis in Xenopus embryos, J.B. Gordon;
Zebrafish - genetic andembryological methods in a transparent vertebrate
embryo, M.C. Fihsman et al. Myogenesis in cell culture: Skeletal muscle
cultures, C. Neville et al; Avian cardiac progenitors - methods for
isolation, culture, and analysis of differentiation, M. Gannon, D. Bader;
Vascular smooth muscle cell cultures, R.R. Pauly et al; skeletal muscle
satellite cell cultures, R.E. allen et al. Viral and cellular gene delivery
systems in muscle: Retroviral gene delivery, M.J. Federspiel, S.H. Hughes;
The use of replication-defective retroviruses for cell lineage studies of
myogenic cells, D.A. Fischman, T. Mikawa; Adenoviral gene delivery, T. Ragot
et al; Methods for myoblast transplantation, T.A. Rando, H.M. Blau. Molecular
analysis of muscle structure and function: Structure-function analysis of
cytoskeletal/contractile proteins in avian myotubes, H.L. Sweeny, H. Feng;
Functional and structural approaches to the study of excitation-contraction
coupling, K.G. Beam, C. Franzini-Armstrong; Adenovirus-mediated myofilament
gene transfer into adult cardiac myocytes, M. Westfall et al; In Vivo
approaches to neuromuscular structure and function,R.J. Balice-Gordon;
Molecular diversity of myofibrillar proteins - isoforms analysis at the
protein and mRNA level, S. Schiaffino, G. Salviati. Molecular genetic
analysis of muscle gene regulation: Transgenic mice - production and analysis
of expression, A. Faeman, M. Shani; DNA transfection of cultured muscle
cells, C. Neville et al; DNA and adenovirus-mediated gene transfer into
cardiac muscle, A. Kass-Eisler, L.A. Leinwand; Nuclear DNA binding proteins,
K.L. Kucharczuk, D.J. Goldhamer.