Heimburg, Thomas.
Thermal biophysics of membranes /
Thomas Heimburg.
- Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag, c2007.
- xv, 363 p. : ill.
- Tutorials in biophysics .
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.
9783527404711 (alk. paper)
2008447710
Membranes (Biology)--Thermal properties.
Cell Membrane--physiology.
Cell Membrane--physiology.
Models, Biological.
Thermodynamics.
QH601 / .H45 2007
571.6/4
QH601 / .H44 2007
2007 I-847 QU 350 / H467t 2007