The Living Barrier
1st Edition
A Primer on Transfer across Biological Membranes
Description
The Living Barrier: A Primer on Transfer across Biological Membranes provides information pertinent to the movement of molecules across cell membranes. This book covers a variety of topics, including cell membrane, membrane transfer, water transfer, and movement of charged solutes.
Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of the basic ideas of the cell membrane and reviews the experimental evidence about the structure of the cell membrane. This text then reviews the classical electron microscope pictures of membranes. Other chapters consider the interactions between electrical potentials and the movements of charged substances, which make the membrane transfer of these substances much more complicated than those of neutral molecules. This book discusses as well the aspects of water structure and its influence on membrane permeability. The final chapter deals with the methods by which membranes are synthesized.
This book is a valuable resource for biochemists, physiologists, pharmacologists, and botanists.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter 1 The Discovery of the Cell
Chapter 2 The Cell Membrane Concept
Chapter 3 The Paucimolecular Membrane Model
Chapter 4 Chemical and Ultrastructural Studies of Cell Membranes
Chapter 5 The Movement of Molecules Across Cell Membranes
Chapter 6 Experimental Methods and Criteria for Characterizing Membrane Transfer
Chapter 7 The Movement of Charged Solutes
Chapter 8 Water Transfer
Chapter 9 Looking Through a Glass Darkly
Bibliography
Index
Details
- No. of pages:
- 180
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Butterworth-Heinemann 1969
- Published:
- 1st January 1968
- Imprint:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN:
- 9781483281186