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Progress in Heritable Soft Connective Tissue Diseases

Progress in Heritable Soft Connective Tissue Diseases


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This contributed volume represents a substantially revised and updated 2nd edition of a reference handbook on major structural components of soft connective tissues and a whole slew of heritable diseases of soft connective tissues. The number of clearly identifiable and distinct disorders has grown somewhat since the 1st edition in 2014, e.g., Ehlers-Danlos syndrome has now 13 entities. A brand new syndrome, Meester Loeys syndrome carrying the name of Bart Loeys was added as a companion to Loeys-Dietz syndrome. Numerous variations of cutis laxa and joint mobility disorders have been discovered taking advantage of recent advancements in genetic analysis. We have acquired a better understanding of the pathogenesis and biochemical changes in some other, more established entities, such as Marfan Syndrome and Collagen VI myopathies where better management and potential treatments are on the horizon. Even in the case of connective tissue diseases in domestic animals some progress has been made. All these updates were contributed by a group of distinguished and preeminent physicians and scientists, all of them not just working in the field but bringing us also their new discoveries in this volume.

Readers will notice that seemingly there is an overlap among many of these disorders. Indeed, many of them if not most, are interconnected by the prominent roles of TGFβ, of fibrillin microfibrils, collagen fibril assembly and other molecules, playing an important role in connective tissues physiology, and by extension, in the pathogenesis of many disorders described in the book. What I found particularly helpful, is that author(s) of each chapter bring their own perspective even when described closely related mechanism of the disease. These key observations should help with diagnosis and management of such cases.

The book start with more general chapters that concentrate on the physiology, structure and biochemistry of normal soft tissues, which greatly helps to better understand the pathophysiology of connective tissue disorders.

Last but not least, the chapters are very readable, more like detective stories than dry description of genetic/biochemical defects. I do hope that basic scientists and clinicians with similar and diverse interests alike will appreciate this volume and will be inspired by it to develop their research in the field.


About the Author: Jaroslava Halper, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Pathology at The University of Georgia where she is affiliated with the Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, and with the Department of Basic Sciences in the Medical Partnership. She is a Board certified Anatomic Pathologist who received M.D. degree from Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She trained in Pathology at Albert Einstein of Medicine (in the Bronx, New York) and at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She obtained Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology from the University of Minnesota at Mayo Clinic where she worked on the identification of transforming growth factor e (known better as granulin) with Harold Moses as her major professor. She continued her work on granulins, growth factors and tissue repair when she first arrived at The University of Georgia. With time her research interests have evolved into probing basic problems in tendons. More recently she has conducted ground-breaking research on equine degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis (DSLD). Her group has established that DSLD, a chronic progressive disorder, is a systemic condition characterized by inappropriate accumulation of proteoglycans in connective tissues, in particular in tendons and ligaments.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783030806132
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 290
  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
  • Weight: 750 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3030806138
  • Publisher Date: 12 Nov 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Width: 178 mm


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