
Systems Biomechanics of the Cell
Ivan V. Maly(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 28. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
V, 55 pages
978-1-4614-6882-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
2013 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
6 s/w Abbildungen, 22 farbige Abbildungen
V, 55 p. 28 illus., 22 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4614-6882-0 (9781461468820)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-6883-7
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Ivan V. Maly
Systems Biomechanics of the Cell
E-Book
03/2013
1st Edition
Springer
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Content
Introduction.- Instability of symmetry.- Unipolar cell body.- Bipolar cell body.- Boundary dynamics.- Emergent irreversibility.- Dissipative oscillations.