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Advances in biological and medical physics. Volume 11 /
Advances in Biological and Medical Physics provides an overview of the state of knowledge in biological and medical physics. The book contains seven chapters and begins with a discussion of the kinetics of cellular proliferation. This is followed by separate chapters on energy distribution in the ab...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Academic Press,
1967.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Advances in Biological and Medical Physics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CHAPTER 1. KINETICS OF CELLULAR PROLIFERATION; I . INTRODUCTION; II. MEASUREMENT OF CELL PROLIFERATION; III. PROLIFERATION IN GROWING CELL POPULATIONS; IV. PROLIFERATION IN STEADY STATE CELL POPULATIONS; V. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. ENERGY DISTRIBUTION IN THE ABSORPTION OF RADIATION; I . BACKGROUND; II. EVENT SIZE (Y); III. LOCAL ENERGY DENSITY (Z); IV. RADIOBIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS; APPENDIX I. SUMMARY OF QUANTITIES, FUNCTIONS, AND THEIR INTERRELATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES.
- Chapter 3. phase transitions in lipids in relation to the structure of membranesi. introduction; ii. phase transitions in lipids; iii. lipids in membranes; acknowledgments; references; chapter 4. human serum lipoproteins and their interrelationships; i. introduction; ii. biophysical approaches to lipoprotein isolation and characterization; iii. broad chemical characteristics of the major classes of serum lipoproteins; iv. protein composition of the major classes of serum lipoproteins; v. properties of residues from delipidated lipoproteins.
- Vi. distribution of apolipoproteins in the major classes of serum lipoproteinsvii. implications of chemical interrelationships to the distribution of lipoproteins in serum; viii. lipoprotein distributions associated with serum levels of a specific lipoprotein class; ix. major features of the data on lipoprotein distributions in human serum; x. studies of extreme lipoprotein distributions in disease and their chemical implications; xi. concluding remarks; acknowledgments; references; chapter 5. biological barriers and material transfer; i. introduction; ii. classical thermodynamics.
- Iii. thermodynamics of irreversible processesiv. mechanics; v. flux and tracers; vi. model systems; vii. remarks and conclusions; references; chapter 6. role of the swimbladder rete of fish in secretion of inert gas and oxygen; i. introduction; ii. gas tension in water under pressure; iii. source of inert swimbladder gases; iv. gas solubilities and salting out effect; v. lactic acid concentrations in the barracuda rete; vi. the rete countercurrent system; vii. carbon dioxide tension in the swimbladder and the rete; viii. oxygen tensions developed in the rete system; ix. discussion; x. summary.
- Acknowledgmentsreferences; chapter 7. zone centrifugation1; i. introduction; ii. materials and methods; iii. computations; iv. convection during zonal sedimentation; v. mass transport theory-sedimentation; vi. mass transport theory-diffusion; vii. mass transport theory-discussion; viii. the theory of moments; ix. boundary shape theory; x. some applications; xi. other reviews; appendix; acknowledgment; references; author index; subject index; cumulative title index volumes 1-10.