Introduction: basic science meets the clinic

Basic science & clinic around skeletal muscles.

In the past three years, ISMuLT has been active nationally and internationally in scientific meetings on the physiology and pathology of muscles, ligaments and tendons. This issue of Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons Journal focuses on the basic science aspects of muscles in human, in animals and in a number of in vitro models. Highlighting the structure and function of muscle tissue, starting fro...

Achilles Tendinopathy: From the Basic Science to the Clinic

Basic science MYOCARDIAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION

The recent publication of draft copies of the human genome sequence from both public and private sector consortia has fuelled anticipation that eventually, once all genes have been identified, we will be able to ascertain which of them are involved in human diseases, including those affecting the cardiovascular system. Understanding the molecular biology behind both inherited and acquired disor...

Folliculogenesis and oogenesis: from basic science to the clinic.

Stephen G. Hillier1, Johan Smitz2, and Ursula Eichenlaub-Ritter3 Centre for Reproductive Biology, University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Chancellor’s Building, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK Follicle Biology Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, B 1090 Brussels, Belgium University Bielefeld, Faculty of Biology, Gene Technology...

Computer Science Meets Medical Science

In the past 20–30 years at least two technical advances have made quantification in pathology at a large scale possible. At the time the computing power of affordable computers increased, interest to deploy tasks emerged that were previously very laborious to perform. Combined with digital camera systems, many new possibilities became available. Examples of such measurements that were previousl...