Connective tissue and its heritable disorders : molecular, genetic, and medical aspects /
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New York :
Wiley-Liss,
[1993]
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Table of Contents:
- Heritable disorders of connective tissue: a personal account of the origins, evolution, validation, and expansions of a concept / Victor A. McKusick
- Introduction to medical genetics / Bryan Sykes
- Morphology of connective tissue: structure of the skin and tendon / Karen A. Holbrook and Lynne T. Smith
- Morphology of connective tissue: cartilage / William A. Horton
- Morphology of connective tissue: bone / Robert K. Schenk, Rolf Felix and Willy Hofstetter
- Collagen: the collagen family: structure, assembly, and organization in the extracellular matrix / Cay M. Kielty, Ian Hopkinson and Michael E. Grant
- Collagen: gene structure / Mon-Li Chu and Darwin J. Prockop
- Elastin / Joel Rosenbloom
- Glycosylated matrix proteins / Dick Heinegard and Ake Oldberg
- Adhesive glycoproteins / Klaus von der Mark and Simon Goodman
- Keratins / E. Birgitte Lane
- Bone / Ian R. Dickson
- Extracellular matrix degradation / Gillian Murphy and John J. Reynolds
- Osteogenesis imperfecta / Peter H. Byers
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome / Beat Steinmann, Peter M. Royce and Andrea Superti-Furga.
- (cont) Cutis laxa and premature aging syndromes / Jouni Uitto, Michael J. Fazio and Angela M. Christiano
- Pseudoxanthoma elasticum / Kenneth H. Neldner
- Marfan syndrome / Reed E. Pyeritz
- Homocystinurias / Flemming Skovby
- Disorders of copper transport: Menkes disease and the occipital horn syndrome / David M. Danks
- Epidermolysis bullosa / Leena Bruckner-Tuderman
- Prolidase deficiency / Peter M. Royce and Beat Steinmann
- α1-antitrypsin deficiency / Diane Wilson Cox
- Osteopetrosis and the heritable forms of rickets / Michael P. Whyte
- Alcaptonuria / B.L. Hazleman and A.O. Adebajo
- Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva / J. Michael Connor
- Disorders of lysosomal enzymes / J.G. Leroy and U. Wiesmann
- Chondrodysplasias / William A. Horton and Jacqueline T. Hecht
- Disorders of keratinization / Howard P. Baden and Joseph C. Kvedar.