Pathology of Skeletal Muscle

Skeletal muscle pathology in chronic heart block.

Skeletal muscle samples, mainly from the deltoid, were studied morphologically and histochemically in 35 patients with chronic heart block and from nine elderly control subject. The average age of the first group was 67-7 (range 11-94) years. Abnormalities were present in 20 cases, no difference being found between patients with idiopathic and secondary heart block. In 15 samples there was incr...

Skeletal muscle pathology in Huntington's disease

Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine stretch within the huntingtin protein (HTT). The neurological symptoms, that involve motor, cognitive and psychiatric disturbances, are caused by neurodegeneration that is particularly widespread in the basal ganglia and cereberal cortex. HTT is ubiquitously expressed and in recent ye...

Pericytes in development and pathology of skeletal muscle.

Increasing attention is currently devoted to the multiple roles that pericytes (also defined as mural, Rouget, or perivascular cells) may play during angiogenesis, vascular homeostasis, and pathology. Many recent excellent reviews thoroughly address these topics (see below); hence, we will not discuss them in detail here. However, not much is known about origin, heterogeneity, gene expression, ...

Integrins in the Development and Pathology of Skeletal Muscle

Reversible molecular pathology of skeletal muscle in spinal muscular atrophy.

Low levels of full-length survival motor neuron (SMN) protein cause the motor neuron disease, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Although motor neurons undoubtedly contribute directly to SMA pathogenesis, the role of muscle is less clear. We demonstrate significant disruption to the molecular composition of skeletal muscle in pre-symptomatic severe SMA mice, in the absence of any detectable degener...