Bioelectrochemistry of cells and tissues /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Basel ; Boston :
Birkhäuser Verlag,
[1995]
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| Series: | Bioelectrochemistry (Basel, Switzerland) ;
v. 2. |
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Table of Contents:
- Electric organs and their innervation : a model system for the study of cholinergic function
- Anatomy and embryology of the electromotor system
- Electrophysiology of the electromotor system
- Electrolocation and electrocommunication
- The cellular and molecular biology of cholinergic synapses as deduced from work on the electromotor system / V.P. Whittaker
- Contractility and motility of muscle and non-muscle cells
- Histology of striated muscle cells
- Muscle physiology
- The sliding filament model.
- Actin and myosin are proteins organized in filaments
- Actin and myosin exist in a number of variants
- The atomic structures of actin and myosin subfragment 1 have been solved
- The cross-bridge cycle
- The mechanism of ATP-hydrolysis by myosin and acto-myosin
- Where in the myosin molecule is the force produced?
- The regulation of muscle activity
- Electrochemical coupling in muscle cells
- Muscle diseases (myopathies)
- Motor systems in non-muscle cells / H.G. Mannherz
- Light-transduction in photoreceptors.
- Structure and function of photoreceptors
- Molecular basis of phototransduction
- Light-induced currents
- Function of calcium ions in photoreception
- Voltage-gated currents and their physiological significance
- Ion transport / K. Nagy and H. Stieve
- An electrochemical description of metabolism
- Cellular structure and enzyme organisation
- Cellular energy transduction
- Proton and electron flow in intracellular structures
- Importance of electrical processes in the control of metabolism.
- Significance of cellular potentials
- Theoretical considerations
- Relevant experimental studies
- Electrochemical regulation of metabolism / M.N. Berry and M.B. Grivell
- The low-frequency dielectric properties of biological cells
- Theory of the dielectric experiment
- Mechanisms of dielectric dispersion in biological systems
- Mechanisms of dielectric relaxation in cell suspensions and tissues
- Nonlinear interactions of cells with electrical fields.
- A four state enzyme capable of harvesting electrical energy for the performance of useful (bio)chemical work / C.L. Davey and D.B. Kell
- Dielectrophoretic and electrorotation behaviour of cells : theory and experiment
- Theoretical background
- Cell dielectrophoresis
- Cell electrorotation
- Relationship between dielectrophoresis and electrorotation / R. Pethig and Y. Huang
- Effects of magnetic fields on living systems
- Field types and modes of action
- Experimental in vitro results
- Experimental in vivo results / S.D. Smith, A.R. Liboff and B.R. McLeod.
- Low-frequency electromagnetic field effects on cell metabolism
- Experimental techniques
- Biochemical and biological response of biological systems
- Current models for mechanisms of electrostimulation / H. Berg.