Cell Movement and Cell Behaviour - Brossura

Lackie, J.M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0045740356 ISBN 13: 9780045740352

Casa editrice: Springer, 2013

Riassunto

This book should be of interest to cell biologists and molecular biologists.

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Recensione

The book is written in a friendly disarming style that should carry along those newcomers to the field...As an introduction to cell and molecular biologists wishing to understand more about the movements of living cells the book has no parallel. - The Times Higher Education Supplement

Contenuti

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Why is movement interesting?.- 1.2 What do we mean by ‘movement’?.- 1.3 What causes movement?.- 1.4 An analogy.- 1.5 Motor design — an abstract exercise.- 1.6 How are movements controlled?.- 1.7 Which motor for the task?.- References.- 2 Motors Based on Actomyosin.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Components of the motor.- 2.3 The basic motor.- 2.4 Linear contractile systems.- 2.5 Non-linear: planar systems.- 2.6 Non-linear: solid systems.- 2.7 Control of the motor.- 2.8 Summary.- References.- 3 Motors Based on Microtubules.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Structure of microtubules.- 3.3 Dynein.- 3.4 The basic motor.- 3.5 Cilia and flagella.- 3.6 Movement in the mitotic spindle.- 3.7 Movement associated with cytoplasmic microtubules.- 3.8 Summary.- References.- 4 Motors of Other Sorts.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Bacterial flagella.- 4.3 Other bacterial motors.- 4.4 The spasmoneme of vorticellids.- 4.5 Assembly-disassembly motors.- 4.6 Hydraulic systems.- 4.7 Miscellaneous motor systems.- 4.8 Summary.- References.- 5 Swimming.- 5.1 General.- 5.2 Swimming.- 5.3 Methods of obtaining forward thrust.- 5.4 Control of the direction of ciliary beat.- 5.5 Summary.- References.- 6 Crawling Movement.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 A simplistic analysis of the problem.- 6.3 Amoeba.- 6.4 Fibroblast locomotion.- 6.5 Fibroblast spreading.- 6.6 Movement of other cell types.- 6.7 Summary.- References.- 7 Moving in a Uniform Environment.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Random walks and internal bias.- 7.3 Effects of changes in environmental properties.- 7.4 Roughness.- 7.5 Rigidity and deformability.- 7.6 Summary.- References.- 8 Anisotropic Environments.- 8.1 General.- 8.2 Trapping and avoidance.- 8.3 Gradients.- 8.4 Flow.- 8.5 Magnetic and electric fields.- 8.6 Gravity.- 8.7 Shape.- 8.8 Rigidity.- 8.9 Summary.- References.- 9 Chemotaxis.- 9.1 General.- 9.2 The problem - a theoretical analysis.- 9.3 Bacterial Chemotaxis.- 9.4 Chemotaxis in Paramoecium.- 9.5 Chemotaxis in the cellular slime-moulds.- 9.6 Chemotaxis in Myxobacteria.- 9.7 Chemotaxis of leucocytes.- 9.8 Summary.- References.- 10 Cell-Cell Interactions.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 Contact inhibition of locomotion.- 10.3 Consequences of contact inhibition.- 10.4 Escape from normal contact inhibition.- 10.5 Invasiveness as a general phenomenon.- 10.6 Summary.- References.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0045740356
• ISBN 13: 9780045740352
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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