Muscle Biology: The Life History of a Muscle

Muscle Biology: The Life History of a Muscle traces the story of a muscle from embryonic beginnings through growth, adult adaptation, and the decline in structure and function that can come with old age. You’ll also explore how injury happens during normal activity, after trauma, and in the course of certain diseases—along with what muscle regeneration and muscle diseases reveal about healing capacity.

Key benefits

• Follow muscle development across the full lifespan, from embryo to old age
• Understand how a muscle adapts to its functional environment at each stage of development
• Learn the mechanisms behind normal and abnormal muscle changes, including disease, “normal” aging, and disuse/lack of physical activity
• Explore injury in multiple real-world contexts: normal activity, trauma, and disease-related causes
• Gain insight into the possibilities and limitations of muscle fiber healing capacity through chapters on regeneration and muscle diseases
• Use a reader-friendly structure that includes a brief review of normal mature muscle structure and function, plus chapter summaries and over 300 illustrations

Who this is for

This book is ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners who need a comprehensive, end-to-end overview of muscle biology and want to connect developmental controls to functional adaptation, injury, regeneration, and disease.

Details

• Title: Muscle Biology: The Life History of a Muscle
• Brand/Publisher: Orthopedics Library; Elsevier
• Authors: Bruce M. Carlson
• Edition: 1
• Published Date: 2021-11-28
• Pages: 212
• ISBN: 9780128202791, 0128202793

Take the next step and add this comprehensive lifespan-focused reference to your collection—so you can better understand muscle development, adaptation, injury, regeneration, and the biology of muscle decline.