Connective Tissue and Its Heritable Disorders: Molecular, Genetic, and Medical Aspects
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More About This Title Connective Tissue and Its Heritable Disorders: Molecular, Genetic, and Medical Aspects
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Synthesizes a wealth of new information in the areas of biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. Contains clear,well-organized material regarding advances in the study of heritable disorders of connective tissue, describing breakthroughs in the last ten years which, until now, have not been published.
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Partial table of contents:
Principles of Medical Genetics.
Morphology of Connective Tissue.
Structure of the Skin and Tendon.
Structure of Cartilage.
Structure of Bone.
Collagen: Protein.
Elastin.
Proteoglycans and Glycoproteins.
Keratin.
Bone.
Extracellular Matrix Degradation.
The Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum.
The Marfan Syndrome.
Disorders of Copper Transport: Menkes' Disease and the Occipital Horn Syndrome.
Prolidase Deficiency.
Osteopetrosis and the Heritable Forms of Rickets.
Alacaptonuria.
Fibrodyxplasia Ossificans Progressiva.
Disorders of Lysosomal Enzymes.
Chondrodysplasis.
Disorders of Keratinization.
