Current Topics in Membranes and Transport
Published on 14. October 1987
278 pages
978-0-08-058501-7 (ISBN)
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Current Topics in Membranes and Transport
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Felix Bronner | A. Kleinzeller | R. Gilles
Current Topics in Membranes and Transport: Cell Volume Control - Fundamental and Comparative Aspects in Animal Cells v. 30
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01/1987
Academic Press
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- Front Cover
- Cell Volume Control: Fundamental and Comparative Aspects in Animal Cells
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Yale Membrane Transport Processes Volumes
- PART I: VOLUME CONTROL IN ISOSMOTIC CONDITIONS
- Chapter 1. Volume Maintenance in Isosmotlc Conditions
- I. Introduction
- II. Experimental Approaches to Study Cellular Volume
- III. Questions of Cell Organization
- IV. The Magnitude of the Osmotic Forces Generated by Impermeant Cellular Solutes
- V. What Are the Cellular Impermeant Solutes?
- VI. How Is the Cellular Osmotic Swelling Force Offset?
- VII. What Limits Cellular Swelling?
- VIII. The Role of Medium Anions in Cell Volume Regulation
- IX. Summary
- References
- Chapter 2. Role of Cytoplasmic Vesicles in Volume Maintenance
- I. Introduction
- II. Examples of Water Movement and Compartmentalization
- III. Volume Regulation in Vertebrates
- IV. Ion Transport by Intracellular Membranes
- V. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. The Cell Cytoskeleton: Possible Role in Volume Control
- I. Introduction
- II. Cell Shape and the Cytoskeleton
- III. Membrane-Cytoskeletal Interactions
- IV. Relationship between Cell Volume and Cell Shape
- V. Possible Role of the Cytoskeleton in the Mechanism of Cell Volume Control
- VI. Cytoskeleton and Cell Volume in MDCK Cells
- VII. Summary
- References
- PART II: VOLUME CONTROL IN ANISOSMOTIC CONDITIONS
- Chapter 4. Volume Regulation In Epithelia
- I. Introduction
- II. Basic Principles for the Maintenance of Epithelial Cell Volume during Steady-State Conditions
- III. Transepithelial NaCl Transport
- IV. Response of Epithelial Cell Volume to Osmotic Perturbations
- V. Methods for Measuring Cell Volume Changes
- VI. Volume Regulatory Increase: Necturus Gallbladder Epithelium
- VII. Volume Regulatory Decrease
- VIII. Physiological Significance of Volume Regulation
- References
- Chapter 5. Volume Regulation in Cultured Cells
- I. Introduction
- II. Classification of the Ion Transport Mechanisms Involved in Volume Regulation
- Ill. Regulatory Volume Increase (RVI)
- IV. Regulatory Volume Decrease (RVD)
- V. Summary and Perspectives
- References
- Chapter 6. Cell Volume Regulation in Lower Vertebrates
- I. Evolutionary Considerations
- II. Environmental Considerations
- Ill. Cell Solute Composition
- IV. Changes in Cell Composition during Osmotic Stress
- V. Extracellular Fluid Regulation and Cell Volume Control
- VI. Role of Intracellular Osmolytes in the Mechanism of Cell Volume Regulation
- VII. Cell Volume Maintenance and the Role of the Cytoskeleton
- References
- Chapter 7. Volume Regulation in Cells of Euryhaline Invertebrates
- I. Introduction
- II. Coping with Changes in Membrane Tension and Cell Volume: Cell Volume Control in Anisosmotic Media
- III. Coping with Changes in Ion Content: Modification in Structure and Activity of Macromolecular Components
- IV. Conclusions
- References
- PART III: PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROSPECTIVES
- Chapter 8. Non-Donnan Effects of Organic Osmolytes in Cell Volume Changes
- I. Introduction
- II. Donnan Theory as a Model
- Ill. Perturbing and Stabilizing Solutes
- IV. Mechanisms of Action of Stabilizing Solutes
- V. Conclusions
- References
- Index
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