BAM 17 (3&4)


Table of Contents




Editorial:             95        2007 Ernest Gutmann  Heritage, 30-year after
                                        Ugo Carraro

Commentaries     97        Celebration of Ernest Gutmann’s life
                                        Gerta Vrbová

                          101        Ernest Gutmann – an Example and a Friend                                       
                                         Dirk Pette

                          105        Ernest Gutmann in his own words
                                        Selected by Anna Koffer – Gutmann


Articles             113        “The Denervated Muscle” – 45 Years Later
                                        Bruce M. Carlson


                          119        Evolution of skeletal type e-c coupling
                                        Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Valentina Di Biase

 

                          123        Do changes in the vascular bed contribute to the development of denervation atrophy
                                        in skeletal muscle?
                                        Olga Hudlicka

 

                          125        Beneficial effect of locomotor training on the structure of the denervated rat soleus muscle 
                                        Anna  Jakubiec-Puka, Urszula Sławinska, Maria  J Redowicz, Donatella Biral, Irena Łapinska,
                                        Hanna Chomontowska, Kazimierz Krawczyk, Emilia Karczewska, Barbara Pliszka


                          129        Performance and patient training in walking with FES by thoracic-level paraplegics                                       
                                        Daniel Graupe, Humberto Cerrel-Bazo


                          133        Morphological changes in Rectus Femoris muscle: Advanced image processing technique and
                                        3-dimensional visualization to monitor denervated and degenerated muscles treated with
                                        Functional Electrical Stimulation

                                        Paolo Gargiulo, Thordur Helgason, Páll Ingvarsson, Sigrún Knútsdóttir,
                                        Vilborg Gudmundsdóttir, Stefán Yngvason


                           137        Myofiber regeneration in a denervated human muscle 3.5 years after post-traumatic  
                                         free flap reconstruction

                                         Rossella Sferrazza, Vincenzo Vindigni, Nicoletta Adami, Ugo Carraro, Francesco Mazzoleni


                           141        Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-evidence of early denervation of fast-twitch muscles                                        
                                         Tessa Gordon, Charles T. Putman, Janka Hegedus


                           147        Histochemical studies of developing and diseased muscle. From bench to bedside and back.
                                         A tale of two interests

                                         Victor Dubowitz


                           151        Genome Reprogramming by Triggering Cardioprotective Mechanisms    
                                          Marcus C. Schaub, Eliana Lucchinetti, Michael Zaugg


                           161        Response to normobaric hypoxia in slow and fast muscles of the rat                                       
                                         Nicola Cacciani, Roberta Sacchetto, Marta Murgia, Carlo Reggiani, Marco Patruno


                           167        The contemporary role of electron microscopy in neuromuscular pathology
                                         Giovanna Cenacchi, Lucia Tarantino, Arianna Corbu, Lucilla Badiali De Giorgi, Marina Fanin,                                   
                                         Elena Pegoraro, Luigi Fulizio, Corrado Angelini, Giuseppe N Martinelli


                           173        Heterogeneous Pathogenesis of LGMD2: consequences for therapy                                       
                                         Corrado Angelini, Lucia Nardetto, Marina Fanin, Anna Chiara Nascimbeni, Elisabetta Tasca


                           181        Multisystemic LAMP-2 defect in Danon disease                                        
                                         Marina Fanin, Anna C. Nascimbeni, Elisabetta Tasca, Lucia Nardetto, Marco Spinazzi,
                                         Paola Melacini, Corrado Angelini



                           187        A novel OPA1 gene mutation associated with peripheral neuropathy
                                         Marco Spinazzi, Lodovica Vergani, Giovanna Cenacchi, Bernd Wissinger, Corrado Angelini