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Advances in biological and medical physics. Volume 15 /
Advances in Biological and Medical Physics, Volume 15 covers papers on the productive applications of physical science in biology and medicine. The book presents articles dealing with the geometric influence of bone matrix on the differentiation of fibroblasts and information on human repetitious DN...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Academic Press,
1974.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Advances in Biological and Medical Physics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 15; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. BONE MATRIX IN THE SOLID STATE: GEOMETRIC INFLUENCE ON DIFFERENTIATION OF FIBROBLASTS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. PREPARATION OF THE TRANSFORMANT AND EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; III. SEQUENTIAL CHANGES DURING THE DIFFERENTIATION OF FIBROBLASTS; IV. SPECIFICITY OF THE TRANSFORMANT; V. INFLUENCE OF THE GEOMETRY OF THE TOOTH MATRIX ON FIBROBLAST DIFFERENTIATION; VI. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE BONE MATRIX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. HUMAN REPETITIOUS DNA.
- I. INTRODUCTIONII. THE HUMAN GENOME; III. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. THE SENSE OF TIME: EVIDENCE FOR ITS MOLECULAR BASIS IN THE EUKARYOTIC GENE-ACTION SYSTEM; I. To ""SENSE"" THE TIME Is TO READ BIOLOGICAL TIME FROM AN INTERNAL BIOLOGICAL CLOCK; II. THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK IS A CIRCADIAN CLOCK, AND BIOLOGICAL TIME IS DISTINCT FROM SIDEREAL OR SOLAR TIME; III. THE CIRCADIAN CLOCK IS A SYSTEMS PROPERTY; ITS LOWEST LEVEL OF MANIFESTATION IS THE EUKARYOTIC CELL.
- Iv. the circadian oscillation is an inevitable output of the infradian growth mode, and a general property of the eukaryotic cell cyclev. evidence from many sources converges on the gene-action system as the basic circadian oscillator; vi. circadian temporal order arises in gene action; vii. the chronon theory: distance/rate = time; viii. circadian systems display circadian molecular chronotypes; ix. circadian cybernetics: a unifying discipline in the biology of higher organisms; acknowledgments; circadian glossary; references; chapter 4. time in organic evolution; i. introduction.
- II. ORGANIC EVOLUTION: DEFINITION AND NEO-DARWINIAN THEORYIII. VARIABILITY: MUTATION AND MIGRATION; IV. RACES, SELECTION, AND POPULATION DYNAMICS; V. MOLECULAR EVOLUTION AND NEUTRAL MUTATIONS; VI. SPECIATION; VII. TIME AND THE EVOLUTION OF HIGHER TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES; VIII. RATES OF EVOLUTION IN RECENT POPULATIONS; IX. EVOLUTION OF MAN; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. MICROCIRCULATORY BASIS OF FLUID EXCHANGE; I. BACKGROUND; II. CONSTITUENTS IN FLUID EXCHANGE; III. MACROSCOPIC OR WHOLE-ORGAN APPROACH; IV. MICROSCOPIC SINGLE-VESSEL APPROACH; V. MlCROVASCULAR MODELS.
- Vi. capillary blood flow and exchange flowvii. summary statement; references; chapter 6. electron microscopy and diffraction of wet unstained and unfixed biological objects; i. introduction; ii. contrast and resolution of wet biological objects; iii. thin-film-window environmental chambers; iv. differentially pumped, aperture-limited environmental chambers; v. comparison of thin-film and differentially pumped chambers with respect to resolution and ease of operation; vi. techniques of operating differentially pumped hydration chambers; vii. obtaining thermodynamic equilibrium with water vapor.