Desmin and Other Intermediate Filaments in Normal and Diseased Muscle -- Intermediate Filaments in Astrocytes in Health and Disease -- Neuronal Intermediate Filaments and Neurodegenerative Diseases -- Neurofilaments -- Keratin Intermediate Filaments and Diseases of the Skin -- The Keratin K6 Minifamily of Genes -- Transcriptional Regulation of Keratin Gene Expression -- Simple Epithelial Keratins -- Keratins as Targets in and Modulators of Liver Diseases -- The Search for Specific Keratin Functions.