Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Fibre Types in Skeletal Muscles

  • Book
  • © 2002

Overview

Authors:
  1. Karla Punkt

    1. Faculty of Medicine Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology (ADVSANAT, volume 162)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 1-6

  3. When Does Differentiation of Muscle Fibres Begin and Which Factors Characterize a Fibre Type? How Can the Muscle Fibre “Know” Whether to Be Fast or Slow, and Since When?

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 7-8

  4. The Difficulties and Possibilities of Classifying Muscle Fibres in Distinct Nonoverlapping Types

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 9-13

  5. Cytophotometry As a Tool in Fibre Typing

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 15-22

  6. Changes of Muscle Fibre Properties Under Physiological and Pathological Conditions

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 23-68

  7. Fibre Type Transformation

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 69-72

  8. FOG Fibres — The Most Adaptable Muscle Fibres

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 73-73

  9. Are There Adaptation Processes in α-Motoneurons as in Muscle Fibres?

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 75-75

  10. The Influence of Muscle Type on the Properties of a Fibre Type

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 77-78

  11. Correspondences Between Physiological-Metabolic Fibre Typing, ATPase-Fibre Typing and Differentiation of Myosin Isoforms

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 79-80

  12. Expression of Nitric Oxide Synthase Isoforms and Protein Kinase-Cθ in the Different Fibre Types and Alterations by Diabetes and EGb 761 Pretreatment

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 81-89

  13. Specific Fibre Types of Extraocular Muscles

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 91-94

  14. Summary

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 95-97

  15. Conclusions

    • Karla Punkt
    Pages 99-100

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 101-112
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Worldwide, numerous textbooks and publications have dealt with research on muscle fibres carried out under different points of view. In addition, comprehensive works such as Myology (Engel and Franzini-Armstrong 1994), Disorders of Voluntary Muscle (Walton et al. 1994), and Skeletal Muscle (Schmalbruch 1985) as a volume ofthe work Handbook of Microscopic Anatomy, have been published. Moreover, proceedings from myology symposiums give us access to the present state of the art in muscle research. The book The Dynamic State of Muscle Fibres (Pette 1990a) summarizes the contributions to the symposium of the same name, which was held in Constance in 1989. Considering these outstanding works one has to ask the question: Why do we need the present book? The first reason is that results from ongoing research expand scientific knowledge continuously. When dealing with muscle research one soon realizes that muscle tissue is a fascinating subject, whose secrets have not yet been revealed completely. The application of new techniques in muscle fibre research enables and provokes us to go deeper into the nature of muscle tissue. The results are findings that add a new dimension to what is already known. For instance, the detailed metabolic charac­ terization of muscle fibre types in the context of an intact histological section has been performed only recently using cytophotometrical quantification of enzyme activities. The second reason for this book is of a more pragmatic nature.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Medicine Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Karla Punkt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fibre Types in Skeletal Muscles

  • Authors: Karla Punkt

  • Series Title: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59399-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-42603-5Published: 14 December 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-59399-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0301-5556

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-7065

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 112

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cell Biology, Anatomy

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation