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Thermal biophysics of membranes / Thomas Heimburg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tutorials in biophysicsPublication details: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag, c2007.Description: xv, 363 p. : illISBN:
  • 9783527404711 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 571.6/4 22
LOC classification:
  • QH601 .H45 2007
NLM classification:
  • 2007 I-847
  • QU 350
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.
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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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