Mechanics of the Cell

2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-521-13069-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1318 g

Exploring the mechanical features of biological cells, including their architecture and stability, this textbook is a pedagogical introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of cell mechanics and soft matter physics from both experimental and theoretical perspectives. This second edition has been greatly updated and expanded, with new chapters on complex filaments, the cell division cycle, the mechanisms of control and organization in the cell, and fluctuation phenomena. The textbook is now in full color which enhances the diagrams and allows the inclusion of new microscopy images. With more than 300 end-of-chapter exercises exploring further applications, this textbook is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics and biomedical engineering. A website hosted by the author contains extra support material, diagrams and lecture notes, and is available at www.cambridge.org/Boal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boal, David

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Biophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Zellbiologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Biophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of symbols
1. Introduction to the cell
2. Soft materials and fluids
Part I. Rods and Ropes: 3. Polymers
4. Complex filaments
5. Two-dimensional networks
6. Three-dimensional networks
Part II. Membranes: 7. Biomembranes
8. Membrane undulations
9. Intermembrane and electrostatic forces
Part III. The Whole Cell: 10. Structure of the simplest cells
11. Dynamic filaments
12. Growth and division
13. Signals and switches
Appendixes
Glossary
References
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Boal, David
David Boal is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has been working in the field of biophysics for the past twenty years and he now studies the mechanical issues in the origin of life.