Thermal biophysics of membranes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heimburg, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Weinheim, DE : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co KGaA, 2007.
Series:Tutorial in Biophysics
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Membranes-an introduction
  • Membrane structure
  • The composition of biological membranes
  • Introduction into thermodynamics
  • Water
  • Lipid melting
  • Phase diagrams
  • Statistical models for lipid melting
  • Lipid-protein interactions
  • Diffusion
  • Electrostatics
  • Adsorption, binding, and insertion of proteins
  • Elasticity and curvature
  • Thermodynamics of the elastic constants
  • Structural transitions
  • Relaxation processes in membranes
  • Permeability
  • Nerve pulse propagation
  • Anesthesia.