Thermal biophysics of membranes / Thomas Heimburg.
Material type: TextSeries: Tutorials in biophysicsPublication details: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag, c2007.Description: xv, 363 p. : illISBN:- 9783527404711 (alk. paper)
- 571.6/4 22
- QH601 .H45 2007
- 2007 I-847
- QU 350
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-351) and index.
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.
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