Thermal biophysics of membranes /
An overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the field of the physics of membranes, including new insights from the past decade. The author uses classical thermal physics and physical chemistry to explain our current understanding of the membrane. He looks at domain and 'r...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Weinheim :
Wiley-VCH Verlag,
©2007.
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| Series: | Tutorials in biophysics.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Membranes
- an introduction
- Membrane structure
- The composition of biological membranes
- Introduction into thermodynamics
- Water
- Lipid melting
- Phase diagrams
- Statistical models for lipid melting
- Lipid-protein interactions
- Diffusion
- Electrostatics
- Adsorption, binding, and insertion of proteins
- Elasticity and curvature
- Thermodynamics of the elastic constants
- Structural transitions
- Relaxation processes in membranes
- Permeability
- Nerve pulse propagation
- Anesthesia.
