Histology: Muscle Tissue

Histology: Muscle Tissue — Expert Atlas

How it begins

Ultraestructura del sarcómero, ciclo de puente cruzado, tipos de fibras, retículo sarcoplásmico, placa motora, disco intercalar, músculo liso multiunitario y visceral, regulación molecular de la contracción y correlaciones clínico-patológicas exhaustivas.

What it covers

1. Complete histology: skeletal, cardiac and smooth
2. Generalities of Muscle Tissue
3. · 1.1 General Characteristics and Terminology
4. · 1.2 Types of Muscle Tissue: General Comparison
5. · 1.3 Physiological Properties of Muscle Tissue
6. Skeletal Muscle: Structural Organization
7. · 2.1 Levels of Organization and Associated Connective Tissue
8. · 2.2 The Skeletal Muscle Fiber: Histological Characteristics
9. The Sarcomere: Ultrastructure and Proteins
10. · 3.1 Sarcomere Architecture: Bands and Lines
11. · 3.2 Band Nomenclature (Polarized Light Microscopy)
12. · 3.3 Sarcomere Proteins: Complete Description
13. Types of Skeletal Muscle Fibers
14. · 4.1 Histochemical Classification by Myofibrillar ATPase
15. · 4.2 Immunohistochemistry of Muscle Fibers in Biopsy
16. Sarcoplasmic Reticulum and T Tubule System
17. · 5.1 The Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (SR)
18. · 5.2 The Transverse Tubule System (T Tubules)
19. · 5.3 Excitation-Contraction Coupling (E-C Coupling) — Skeletal Muscle
20. Neuromuscular Junction and Muscle Sensory Receptors
21. · 6.1 The Motor Plate (Neuromuscular Junction)
22. · 6.2 Muscle Spindles and Golgi Tendon Organ
23. Cardiac Muscle
24. · 7.1 The Cardiomyocyte: Differential Morphology
25. · 7.2 The Intercalated Disc: Union between Cardiomyocytes
26. · 7.3 The Cardiac Conduction System
27. Smooth Muscle
28. · 8.1 Smooth Myocyte Morphology
29. · 8.2 Functional Types of Smooth Muscle
30. · 8.3 Regulation of Smooth Muscle Contraction: Via Calmodulin-MLCK
31. Molecular Mechanism of Contraction: Cross Bridge Cycle
32. · 9.1 The Cross Bridge Cycle in Skeletal Muscle
33. · 9.2 Energetics of Muscle Contraction
34. Satellite Cells and Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
35. · 10.1 Characteristics of Satellite Cells
36. · 10.2 Myogenesis: The Muscle Regeneration Program
37. Integrated Clinical-Pathological Correlations
38. · 11.1 Interpretation of Muscle Biopsy: Histological Patterns
39. · 11.2 Inflammatory Myopathies
40. · 11.3 Skeletal Muscle Channelopathies