Molecular Mechanisms Of Water Transport Across Biological Membranes

Author : Wilfred D. Stein,Thomas Zeuthen
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0123646197

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Molecular Mechanisms of Water Transport Across Biological Membranes by Wilfred D. Stein,Thomas Zeuthen Pdf

International Review of Cytology presents current advances and comprehensive reviews in cell biology--both plant and animal. Authored by some of the foremost scientists in the field, each volume provides up-to-date information and directions for future research. This volume looks at water movements from a wide range of levels. It examines how water interacts with the major components of the cell, including proteins and lipids. It discusses how water moves across cell membranes by diffusion, how it is chanelled across these membranes or, in certain cases, pumped across, and how water movements are controlled. This book demonstrates how water and ion movements are closely linked in order to provide a better understanding of their behavior. *Essential Physical chemistry of water at biological interfaces *Up-to-date reviews of water behavior in cells *Water in integrated systems *Current information on water channels across membranes

Author : Thomas Zeuthen
Publisher : Landes Bioscience
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015037480624

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Molecular Mechanisms of Water Transport by Thomas Zeuthen Pdf

Author : Gheorghe Benga
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351086103

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Water Transport and Biological Membranes by Gheorghe Benga Pdf

The main purpose of this book is to provide in-depth presentation of physical techniques for measuring water transport and their applications to a variety of biological membranes, from model membrane systems to cell membranes, and then from isolated cells to multicellular barrier systems, such as epithelia or even whole organisms. This survey of water transport in such a broad range of membrane systems will hopefully contribute to understanding of the structure-function relationships and molecular mechanisms of water permeation. Moreover, the description of various techniques, together with a review of literature will enable the readers to assess whether a technique would be useful in helping to solve his or her particular problem of research and will also expand their competence in these techniques. The book consists of two volumes.

Author : Bruce Alberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cytology
ISBN : 0815332181

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Molecular Biology of The Cell by Bruce Alberts Pdf

Author : Gheorghe Benga
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1315898543

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Water Transport in Biological Membranes by Gheorghe Benga Pdf

There is a general agreement that investigating the permeability characterises of biological membranes not only has intrinsic value but could also contribute to our understanding of the function and structure of membranes. The main purpose of this book is to provide in-depth presentations of physical techniques for measuring water transport and their applications to a variety of biological membranes, from model membrane systems to cell membranes, and then from isolated cells to multicellular barrier systems, such as epithelia or even whole organisms. This survey of water transport in such a broad range of membrane systems will hopefully contribute to understanding of the structure-function relationships and molecular mechanisms of water permeation. Moreover, the description of various techniques, together with a review of literature will enable the readers to assess whether a technique would be useful in helping to solve his or her problem of research and will also expand their competence in these techniques.

Author : Julita Kulbacka,Saulius Satkauskas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319568959

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Transport Across Natural and Modified Biological Membranes and its Implications in Physiology and Therapy by Julita Kulbacka,Saulius Satkauskas Pdf

This book elucidates the mechanisms involved in biological membrane functions. It describes the new modalities and characterization for basic in vitro as well as computer models of biological membranes. Biological membranes are analyzed in terms of advances in molecular dynamics. The individual chapters provide an in depth analysis of images from various biological models. The potential of membrane models in the context of treatment trials is discussed. The authors present new insights and current concepts for treatment procedures (nanocarriers, electroporation, channel blockers).

Author : Stefan Hohmann,Søren Nielsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461512035

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Molecular Biology and Physiology of Water and Solute Transport by Stefan Hohmann,Søren Nielsen Pdf

Biophysical studies in the 1950ies and 1960ies led to the realization that the water permeability of certain biological membranes must be due to the presence of water transporting proteins. This hypothesis was confirmed in 1991 and 1992 with the pioneering discovery of the first molecular membrane water channel, CHIP28, by Agre and coworkers. This integral membrane protein, which is abundant in the erythrocyte membrane and in many epithelial cells, is now called aquaporin-1 or AQP1. Thus the terms water channel or aquaporin are synonymous. In July 2000 more than 200 researchers came together in Gothenburg, Sweden, for the `3rd International Conference on the Molecular Biology and Physiology of Water and Solute Transport" to discuss progress in this emerging research field. 58 different presentations from this conference are the basis for this book. Cumulatively, these 58 short chapters provide a balanced overview complementing numerous recent reviews in this field.

Author : Arthur M. Jungreis,Thomas K. Hodges,Arnost Kleinzeller
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483273877

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Water Relations in Membrane Transport in Plants and Animals by Arthur M. Jungreis,Thomas K. Hodges,Arnost Kleinzeller Pdf

Water Relations in Membrane Transport in Plants and Animals contains the presentations in a symposium dealing with Water Relations in Membranes in Plants and Animals, during the 27th Annual Fall Meeting of the American Physiological Society held at The University of Pennsylvania, 17-19 August 1976. The purpose of the symposium was to explore the common modes of water regulation in plants and animals. In these proceedings, the mechanisms employed to restrict water flow across plant and metazoan animal cells are described. Putative differences in mechanisms of water regulation retained by plant versus animal cells become inconsequential in the light of the numerous similarities: dependence upon bioelectric potentials maintained across cell membranes, energy dependence of uphill water movement, and solute coupling during water transport. The presentations can be organized into four. The first takes up specific mechanisms of water transport in plants. The second and third parts deal with specific mechanisms in invertebrates and vertebrates, respectively. The fourth part covers generalized mechanisms common to plants and animals.

Author : D.C. Tosteson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642463754

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Transport Across Single Biological Membranes by D.C. Tosteson Pdf

This second Volume in the series on Membrane Transport in Biology contains a group of essays on transport across single biological membranes separating the inside and outside of cells or organelles. We have not attempted to include material on all types of plasma and intracellular membranes, but rather have emphasized structures which have been studied relatively thoroughly. Four chapters describe transport of different types of molecules and ions across the plasma membranes of mammalian red cells. Two essays concern the excitable membranes of nerve and muscle cells while the remaining four chapters treat transport across several types of intracellular membranes. Water makes up more than two-thirds of the mass of most living cells. The transport of water between the inside and outside of cells and organelles is important for the function of these structures. As a result of investigations in many laboratories over the past four decades, our picture of the water permea bility of the red cell membranes is rather detailed when compared to the water permeability of other biological membranes. In Chapter 1, R. I. Macey describes this picture and also considers the permeability of red cell membranes to non electrolytes, including metabolic substrates such as sugars, amino acids, purines and nucleosides.

Author : Wilfred Stein
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323143202

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Transport And Diffusion Across Cell Membranes by Wilfred Stein Pdf

Transport and Diffusion across Cell Membranes is a comprehensive treatment of the transport and diffusion of molecules and ions across cell membranes. This book shows that the same kinetic equations (with appropriate modification) can describe all the specialized membrane transport systems: the pores, the carriers, and the two classes of pumps. The kinetic formalism is developed step by step and the features that make a system effective in carrying out its biological role are highlighted. This book is organized into six chapters and begins with an introduction to the structure and dynamics of cell membranes, followed by a discussion on how the membrane acts as a barrier to the transmembrane diffusion of molecules and ions. The following chapters focus on the role of the membrane's protein components in facilitating transmembrane diffusion of specific molecules and ions, measurements of diffusion through pores and the kinetics of diffusion, and the structure of such pores and their biological regulation. This book methodically introduces the reader to the carriers of cell membranes, the kinetics of facilitated diffusion, and cotransport systems. The primary active transport systems are considered, emphasizing the pumping of an ion (sodium, potassium, calcium, or proton) against its electrochemical gradient during the coupled progress of a chemical reaction while a conformational change of the pump enzyme takes place. This book is of interest to advanced undergraduate students, as well as to graduate students and researchers in biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and biophysics.

Author : Baoxue Yang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811974151

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Aquaporins by Baoxue Yang Pdf

This book provides a state-of-the-art report on our current understanding of aquaporins and the future direction of the field. Aquaporins (AQPs) are a group of water-channel proteins that are specifically permeable to water and other small molecules, such as glycerol and urea. To date thirteen water-channel proteins (AQP0 – AQP12) have been cloned and the mechanisms and physiological functions of water transport across biological membranes have long been the subject of interest. Recent advances in the molecular biology and physiology of water transport have yielded new insights into how and why water moves across cell membranes, and studies on aquaporin knockout mouse models suggest that aquaporins are involved in the development of some diseases and they may be useful targets of research into selective-inhibitor drugs. By focusing on the advances made over the last 30 years in the biophysics, genetics, protein structure, molecular biology, physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology of aquaporins in mammalian cell membranes, this book provides novel insights into further mechanisms and the physiological significance of water and some small molecule transport in mammals in order to stimulate further research in new directions. In the second version, fourteen chapters will be updated base on the most recent research articles. Ten new chapters will be added.

Author : R. Greger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3662312050

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Special Issue on Water Transport Across Biological Membranes by R. Greger Pdf

Author : Gheorghe Benga
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015013603843

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WATER TRANSPORT & BIOLIGICALM MEMBRANES by Gheorghe Benga Pdf

The main purpose of this book is to provide in-depth presentation of physical techniques for measuring water transport and their applications to a variety of biological membranes, from model membrane systems to cell membranes, and then from isolated cells to multicellular barrier systems, such as epithelia or even whole organisms. This survey of water transport in such a broad range of membrane systems will hopefully contribute to understanding of the structure-function relationships and molecular mechanisms of water permeation. Moreover, the description of various techniques, together with a review of literature will enable the readers to assess whether a technique would be useful in helping to solve his or her particular problem of research and will also expand their competence in these techniques. The book consists of two volumes.

Author : R. Greger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3662312069

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Special Issue on Water Transport Across Biological Membranes by R. Greger Pdf

Special Issue on Water Transport Across Biological Membranes

Author : Roy J. Levin
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483281186

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The Living Barrier by Roy J. Levin Pdf

The Living Barrier: A Primer on Transfer across Biological Membranes provides information pertinent to the movement of molecules across cell membranes. This book covers a variety of topics, including cell membrane, membrane transfer, water transfer, and movement of charged solutes. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of the basic ideas of the cell membrane and reviews the experimental evidence about the structure of the cell membrane. This text then reviews the classical electron microscope pictures of membranes. Other chapters consider the interactions between electrical potentials and the movements of charged substances, which make the membrane transfer of these substances much more complicated than those of neutral molecules. This book discusses as well the aspects of water structure and its influence on membrane permeability. The final chapter deals with the methods by which membranes are synthesized. This book is a valuable resource for biochemists, physiologists, pharmacologists, and botanists.