**Meet the editor**

Professor Kunihiro Sakuma, PhD, currently works at the Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a physiologist working in the field of skeletal muscle. He received his sports science diploma in 1995 from the University of Tsukuba and started scientific work at the Department of Physiology, Aichi Human Service Center, focusing on the molecular mechanism

of congenital muscular dystrophy and normal muscle regeneration. His interest was later changed to the molecular mechanism and attenuating strategy of sarcopenia (age-related muscle atrophy). His aim is to attenuate sarcopenia by improving autophagic defects using nutrient- and pharmaceutical-based treatments.

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Muscle Tissue 3** Kunihiro Sakuma

**Contractions 19**

Chapter 6 **Hereditary Myopathies 81**

María Cárdenas Díaz

**Section 2 Plasticity of the Skeletal Muscle 7**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Current Status of Research Field in**

Chapter 2 **The Role of Glucose and Fatty Acid Metabolism in the**

Chapter 3 **Molecular and Cellular Markers in Skeletal Muscle Damage**

Chapter 4 **Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Human**

Chapter 5 **Skeletal Muscle Fiber Types in Neuromuscular Diseases 65**

Satu O.A. Koskinen and Maarit Lehti

**Section 3 The Characteristics of Neuromuscular Disease 63**

Jennifer Glaser and Masatoshi Suzuki

**Development of Insulin Resistance in Skeletal Muscle 9** Sithandiwe Eunice Mazibuko-Mbeje, Phiwayinkosi V. Dludla, Bongani B. Nkambule, Nnini Obonye and Johan Louw

**after Acute Voluntary Exercise Containing Eccentric Muscle**

**Skeletal Muscle Metabolism in Training and Disease 33** Ladislav Valkovič, Radka Klepochová and Martin Krššák

Arlek Marion González-Jamett, Jorge Alfredo Bevilacqua and Ana

**Section 1 Introduction 1**
