Editorial            160        M Grounds: Satellite cells and myoblast transfer therapy
                                        I. Behaviour of satellite cells in vitro

Articles              161        Myoblast transplantation in the mouse: what cells do we use?
                                        A Irintchev, M Langer, M Zweyer and A Wernig
   

                           167        Satellite cell proliferation: starting point and key steps to regeneration and cell-mediated gene therapy
                                         V Mouly, S Decary, RN Cooper, JP Barbet and GS Butler-Browne

                           177        The role of growth factors in myoblast transfer therapy
                                         JJ Bower, JD White, JB Kurek, CM Muldoon and L Austin

                           189        Proliferative dynamics and the role of FGF2 during myogenesis of rat satellite cells on isolated fibers
                                         Z Yablonka-Reuveni and AJ Rivera

                           203        Characterisation of stem cells in adult mouse muscle
                                         K Blaveri and JE Morgan

                           211        Exogenous genes are expressed in mdx muscle fibres following the implantation of primary mouse skin cells
                                         JB Relvas, H Aldridge, KE Wells, DJ Wells and DJ Watt

                                         II. Host response to cell transplantation
 

                           221        Myoblast transplantation: a brief review of the problems and of some solutions
                                         J Tremblay and B Guerette

                           231        Increased survival, movement and fusion of myoblasts from sliced muscle grafts into skeletal muscles of
                                         T-cell depleted and tolerised dystrophic host mice
                                         Y Fan, MD Grounds, M Garlepp and M Beilharz

                           241         Autologous myoblast transfer: a combination of myoblast transplantation and gene therapy
                                          SS Floyd, DK Booth, JCT Van Deutekom and J Huard

                           251         Dystrophin levels required for genetic correction of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
                                          JS Chamberlain

                           257        The functional status of dystrophic muscles and functional recovery by skeletal muscles
                                         following myoblast transfer
                                         JA Faulkner, SV Brooks, RG Dennis and GS Lynch
 
 

Articles             265        Detection of heterozygotes for intragenic deletions in families with recurrence of Duchenne
                                         or Becker Muscular Dystrophy
                                         M Miorin, A Todorova, L Vitiello, M Rosa, ML Mostacciuolo and GA Danieli

                            271        Presence of mono-oligoclonal rearrangement of Vd-Jd TCR genes in myasthenia gravis
                                          G Michalowska-Wender, J Nowak and M Wender

                            275        Biopsy-documented myopathy and vasculitis in essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
                                          R Scelsi, G Cadario, A Monteverde and L Scelsi

                            281        Thermodynamics of skeletal muscle during cardiocirculatory assist
                                          IY Christlieb and E Cesarman

                            287        Expression pattern of troponin I and distinct alternatively spliced developmental isoforms
                                          of fast troponin T in vitro and in neonatally denervated rat skeletal muscles
                                          P Kyprianou, A Madgwick, M Morgan, K Krishan and GK Dhoot

Myology news    295        Basic and Applied Myology: a reflection of our roots and vision for the immediate future
                                          M Dodson, Z Yablonka-Reuveni, E Bandman and M Grounds
 

                            299        Books, Calendar of events,