Anatomy 3048 Biology of Skeletal Tissues - 2007

Course Organiser: Dr Tim Arnett ( / 020-7679 3309 / X 33309)

Web sites: www.anat.ucl.ac.uk/uclonly/courses/anatc27a/ & www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgatma/Anat3048/

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READING LIST

WEB SITES

http://www.google.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/ejournal/ejtitle.shtml

http://www.bonekey-ibms.org

http://www.asbmr.org

http://www.brsoc.org.uk

http://www.arc.org.uk

http://courses.washington.edu/bonephys/

http://depts.washington.edu/bonebio/ASBMRed/ASBMRed.html

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histology/ (username = student; password = Morpheus)

http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgatma/Anat3048/ COURSE WEBSITE

BACKGROUND BOOKS

Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, Raff M, Roberts K, Walter P 2002 The Molecular Biology of the Cell, Edition 4. Garland Science, New York, pp.1090-1117 (ECM, collagen, integrins etc); pp.13001308 (bone) [basic].

Woolf, N. (1998) Pathology: Basic and Systemic. Chapter 44 - The Skeletal System (p. 1035-) [UCL’s Professor Neville Woolf gives a good introduction to bone and joint disorders, with brief notes on the underlying basic science].

Wolpert, L., et al. (2002) Principles of Development.Oxford University Press. [Copies in UCL library].

SJ Jones and A Boyde (1995). Cartilage and bone, in Gray's Anatomy (38th edition) pp 443-483.

Osteoporosis and Bone Biology. The State of the Art. J Compston and S Ralston (eds). International Medical Press (2000) Paperback 114pp, 6 copies of the book at MEDICAL SCIENCES JB 80 COM.

ASBMR Primer on the Metabolic Bone Diseases and Disorders of Mineral Metabolism, Ed MJ Favus, 6th edition, American Society for Bone & Mineral Research, Washington DC (2006) [short review chapters with references for further reading. Downloadable in PDF format from Anat3048 site!].

Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology and Clinical Management, ES Orwoll and M Bliziotes eds, Humana Press (2003) [copy in UCL library, more basic science than the title would suggest!].

Bilezikian JP, Raisz LG, Rodan GA (2001) Principles of Bone Biology, 2nd ed. Harcourt Academic.

Currey JD (2002) Bones: Structure and Mechanics. Princeton Univ Press.

Martin RB, Burr DB, Sharkey NA (1998) Skeletal Tissue Mechanics. Springer-Verlag.

Ganong WF (2003) Review of Medical Physiology, 21th ed. McGraw-Hill, 912 p.

Lowenstam HA, Weiner S (1989) On Biomineralization. Oxford Univ Press.

Biomineralization, Chemical and Biochemical Perspectives. S Mann, J Webb and RJP Williams (eds) VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, Weinheim, Germany, 1989.