Systems Biomechanics of the Cell

Ivan V. Maly (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

55 Seiten

2013
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4614-6882-0 (ISBN)

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Systems Biomechanics of the Cell attempts to outline systems biomechanics of the cell as an emergent and promising discipline. The new field owes conceptually to cell mechanics, organism-level systems biomechanics, and biology of biochemical systems. Its distinct methodology is to elucidate the structure and behavior of the cell by analyzing the unintuitive collective effects of elementary physical forces that interact within the heritable cellular framework. The problematics amenable to this approach includes the variety of cellular activities that involve the form and movement of the cell body and boundary (nucleus, centrosome, microtubules, cortex, and membrane). Among the elementary system effects in the biomechanics of the cell, instability of symmetry, emergent irreversibility, and multiperiodic dissipative motion can be noted. Research results from recent journal articles are placed in this unifying framework. It is suggested that the emergent discipline has the potential to expand the spectrum of questions asked about the cell, and to further clarify the physical nature of animate matter and motion.

Introduction.- Instability of symmetry.- Unipolar cell body.- Bipolar cell body.- Boundary dynamics.- Emergent irreversibility.- Dissipative oscillations.

Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Bioengineering ; 1
Zusatzinfo	22 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white; V, 55 p. 28 illus., 22 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zellbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
	Technik ► Medizintechnik
Schlagworte	Biomechanics • Biophysics • systems biology
ISBN-10	1-4614-6882-5 / 1461468825
ISBN-13	978-1-4614-6882-0 / 9781461468820
Zustand	Neuware