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Biophysics From Molecules to Brain

Author : Zeljko Vucinic
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781573315753
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Biophysics From Molecules to Brain written by Zeljko Vucinic and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radoslav K. Andjus was a founder of the modern field of biophysics, and this volume contains the proceedings of a meeting held in his honor in Belgrade, organized and attended by many of his former students and coworkers, including the Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner. Andjus's ground-breaking work in tolerance to anoxia and hypothermia ranged from the cellular level to the behavior of freeze-tolerant and freeze-resistant vertebrates. The symposium renews a well-established tradition of annual meetings of the Yugoslav Biophysical Society, which had been suspended for several years as a result of the political situation in the region. These proceedings comprise contributions from the fields of neuro-, membrane, and molecular biophysics; neuroscience; biomedical science; rehabilitation; and emergency medicine, and should be of interest to basic researchers as well as clinical practitioners. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.

Biophysics from Molecules to Brain

Author : Željko Vučinić
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Biophysics from Molecules to Brain written by Željko Vučinić and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radoslav K. Andjus was a founder of the modern field of biophysics, and this volume contains the proceedings of a meeting held in his honor in Belgrade, organized and attended by many of his former students and coworkers including the Nobel Laureate Stanley Prusiner.

Physics and Biology

Author : Jean François Allemand
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814616494
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Physics and Biology written by Jean François Allemand and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you often lose your keys? You will find in this book the best strategy to find them, or at least the one deduced from statistical physics. What is the link with biology? Some proteins use the same strategy to find their target inside a living cell. This example illustrates one of the many links between physics and biology. These links result from an intense research activity in the past years at the interface between those two disciplines. This book describes some of the most recent progresses at this interface: from instrumental progresses used in biology to the mechanical description of a cell, to molecular motors, from brain activity mechanisms to auditory or sensory perception. Many fields are covered from the molecular to the scale at the organ level. A few biological notions are presented in the first chapter that may help to access the biological aspects of the others. In the end this book may interest people passionate in science, from the simple amateur to the advanced researcher level. Contents:Some Biology Basic PrinciplesFluorescence Microscopy for Biological ImagingMechanical Studies on Single Molecules: General ConsiderationsMolecular MotorsCellular Mechanics and MotilityExploring Neuronal Activity with PhotonsPhysical Principles of HearingSensing Through Friction: The Biomechanics of Texture Perception in Rodents and PrimatesIntermittent Search Strategies Readership: Advanced undergraduates and graduate or any person with a strong scientific background interested by the physics/biology interface. Key Features:No book treating these very different aspects of biophysics is on the market. Some aspects are not treated in any book. It is more introductory and less technical than competing books on similar subjectsKeywords:Biophysics;Molecular Motors;Single Molecule Mechanics;Cellular Mechanics;Physics of Hearing;Neuronal Activity;Microscopy;Biomechanics of Texture;Search Strategies in Biology

Introduction to Molecular Biophysics

Author : Jack A. Tuszynski
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1135517738
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Molecular Biophysics written by Jack A. Tuszynski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-02-26 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molecular biophysics is a rapidly growing field of research that plays an important role in elucidating the mysteries of life's molecules and their assemblies, as well as the relationship between their structure and function. Introduction to Molecular Biophysics fills an existing gap in the literature on this subject by providing the reader with th

Molecular and Cellular Biophysics

Author : Jack A. Tuszynski
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420011723
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Molecular and Cellular Biophysics written by Jack A. Tuszynski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From quantum theory to statistical mechanics, the methodologies of physics are often used to explain some of life's most complex biological problems. Exploring this challenging yet fascinating area of study, Molecular and Cellular Biophysics covers both molecular and cellular structures as well as the biophysical processes that occur in these structures. Designed for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in biophysics courses, this textbook features a quantitative approach that avoids being too abstract in its presentation. Logically organized from small-scale (molecular) to large-scale (cellular) systems, the text first defines life, discussing the scientific controversies between mechanists and vitalists, the characteristics of living things, and the evolution of life. It then delves into molecular structures, including nucleic acids, DNA, RNA, interatomic interactions, and hydrogen bonds. After looking at these smaller systems, the author probes the larger cellular structures. He examines the cytoplasm, the cytoskeleton, chromosomes, mitochondria, motor proteins, and more. The book concludes with discussions on biophysical processes, including oxidative phosphorylation, diffusion, bioenergetics, conformational transitions in proteins, vesicle transport, subcellular structure formation, and cell division.

Foundations of Biophysics

Author : A. L. Stanford
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483276449
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Biophysics written by A. L. Stanford and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Biophysics serves as an introductory textbook for physical science students to the principles and problems of the life sciences. The book offers to teach physical science students the basic vocabulary of the life sciences and the applications of physics and chemistry to a wide range of biological problems. Topics presented in the book include biological vocabulary and concepts; biological functions at the molecular level of each biological system; and commonly used tools of experimental biophysics. Students in the field of physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering will find the book a good learning material.

Molecular Physiology and Metabolism of the Nervous System

Author : Gary A. Rosenberg
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195394275
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Molecular Physiology and Metabolism of the Nervous System written by Gary A. Rosenberg and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The molecular basis for the physiology of the brain has advanced enormously in the past twenty years with an influx of new information gleaned through technological developments in neuroimaging and molecular discoveries. Molecular Physiology and Metabolism of the Nervous System, authored by Gary A. Rosenberg, an authority on the physiology of brain fluids and metabolism, combines the classic physiology that dates back to the beginning of the nineteenth century with the advances in molecular sciences, providing a strong framework for understanding the diseases that are commonly treated by neurologists. Molecular Physiology and Metabolism of the Nervous System focuses on the current neuropathology and implications of cerebrospinal fluid diseases and diseases of the blood-brain barrier: how the two affect stroke, infection, brain tumors, and increased intracranial pressure. The book discusses the effects of blood flow in stroke and dementia, the disruption of the blood-brain barrier in neuroinflammation, and the dysfunction due to brain edema and increased intracranial pressure. Molecular Physiology and Metabolism of the Nervous System is necessary reading for neurologists, neuroscientists, and residents in neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, giving them a strong grounding in physiology and metabolism that will aid them in diagnosis and treatment.

Neurobiology

Author : Franco Conti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461558999
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Neurobiology written by Franco Conti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how the brain works is undoubtedly the greatest challenge for human intelligence and one of the most ambitious goals of contemporary science. We are certainly far from this goal, but significant advancements in several fields of Neuroscience and Neurobiology are being obtained at an increasing pace. The NATO ASI School in Neurobiology, held in Erice May 2-12,1995, as the 23rd Course of the International School of Biophysics, provided an update on three basic topics: Biophysics and Molecular Biology ofIon Channels, Sensory Transduction, and Higher Order Functions. Current knowledge on these subjects was covered by formal lectures and critical discussions between lecturers and participants. This book collects original contributions from those scientists who attended the School. Many students presented their results in poster sessions, steering lively informal discussions. A selection of these contributions is also included. A major portion of the program of the School was devoted to a general overview of current trends of thought and experimental approaches in neurobiology, emphasising the importance of understanding molecular aspects of the elementary events underlying sensory transduction and processing in the nervous system, without indulging however in a pure reductionistic view of such complex phenomena. Recent studies of molecular biology and the electrophysiology of heterologously expressed ionic channels, have shed new light on the molecular mechanisms underlying ionic permeation of excitable membranes and its regulation by physical and chemical parameters.

Biophysics

Author : William Bialek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400845572
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Biophysics written by William Bialek and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interactions between the fields of physics and biology reach back over a century, and some of the most significant developments in biology--from the discovery of DNA's structure to imaging of the human brain--have involved collaboration across this disciplinary boundary. For a new generation of physicists, the phenomena of life pose exciting challenges to physics itself, and biophysics has emerged as an important subfield of this discipline. Here, William Bialek provides the first graduate-level introduction to biophysics aimed at physics students. Bialek begins by exploring how photon counting in vision offers important lessons about the opportunities for quantitative, physics-style experiments on diverse biological phenomena. He draws from these lessons three general physical principles--the importance of noise, the need to understand the extraordinary performance of living systems without appealing to finely tuned parameters, and the critical role of the representation and flow of information in the business of life. Bialek then applies these principles to a broad range of phenomena, including the control of gene expression, perception and memory, protein folding, the mechanics of the inner ear, the dynamics of biochemical reactions, and pattern formation in developing embryos. Featuring numerous problems and exercises throughout, Biophysics emphasizes the unifying power of abstract physical principles to motivate new and novel experiments on biological systems. Covers a range of biological phenomena from the physicist's perspective Features 200 problems Draws on statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and related mathematical concepts Includes an annotated bibliography and detailed appendixes Instructor's manual (available only to teachers)

Applied Biophysics

Author : Thomas Andrew Waigh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470017171
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Applied Biophysics written by Thomas Andrew Waigh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the fundamentals of molecular biophysics, and highlights the connection between molecules and biological phenomena, making it an important text across a variety of science disciplines. The topics covered in the book include: Phase transitions that occur in biosystems (protein crystallisation, globule-coil transition etc) Liquid crystallinity as an example of the delicate range of partially ordered phases found with biological molecules How molecules move and propel themselves at the cellular level The general features of self-assembly with examples from proteins The phase behaviour of DNA The physical toolbox presented within this text will form a basis for students to enter into a wide range of pure and applied bioengineering fields in medical, food and pharmaceutical areas.

Molecular Approaches to Neurobiology

Author : Ian R. Brown
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483282295
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Molecular Approaches to Neurobiology written by Ian R. Brown and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molecular Approaches to Neurobiology deals with molecular approaches to the analysis of the nervous system. This book surveys the current state of knowledge in a number of areas of molecular neurobiology that includes the subcellular level of chromatin structure, complexity of RNA synthesis, role of hormones in cell differentiation, and molecular correlates between neuropeptides and behavior. A comprehensive review of procedures for the isolation of specific brain cells and their experimental use is also provided at the end of this text. This publication is useful to those working in the field of neurochemistry and those engaged in morphological and physiological approaches to the analysis of the nervous system, as well as molecular biologists and biochemists working with non-neural tissues.

Molecular And Cell Biophysics

Author : Ralph Nossal
Publisher : Redwood, Calif. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Molecular And Cell Biophysics written by Ralph Nossal and published by Redwood, Calif. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991-06-23 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biophysics of Consciousness

Author : Roman R Poznanski
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814644277
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Biophysics of Consciousness written by Roman R Poznanski and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and "something it is like to be" remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world. While various scientists and philosophers approach the problem from their own unique perspectives and in the terms of their own respective fields, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach attempts a consilience across disparate disciplines to explain how it is possible that an objective brain produces subjective experience. This volume unites the crème de la crème of physicists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists in the attempt to understand consciousness through a foundational approach encompassing ontological, evolutionary, neurobiological, and Freudian interpretations with the focus on conscious phenomena occurring in the brain. By integrating the perspectives of these diverse disciplines with the latest research and theories on the biophysics of the brain, the book tries to explain how consciousness can be an adaptive and causal element in the natural world.

The Physical Basis of Biochemistry

Author : Peter R. Bergethon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475729634
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Physical Basis of Biochemistry written by Peter R. Bergethon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this book is to provide a unifying approach to the study of biophysical chemistry for the advanced undergraduate who has had a year of physics, organic chem istry, calculus, and biology. This book began as a revised edition of Biophysical Chemistry: Molecules to Membranes, which Elizabeth Simons and I coauthored. That short volume was written in an attempt to provide a concise text for a one-semester course in biophysical chemistry at the graduate level. The experience of teaching biophysical chemistry to bi ologically oriented students over the last decade has made it clear that the subject requires a more fundamental text that unifies the many threads of modem science: physics, chem istry, biology, mathematics, and statistics. This book represents that effort. This volume is not a treatment of modem biophysical chemistry with its rich history and many contro versies, although a book on that topic is also needed. The Physical Basis of Biochemistry is an introduction to the philosophy and practice of an interdisciplinary field in which biological systems are explored using the quantitative perspective of the physical scientist. I have three primary objectives in this volume: one, to provide a unifying picture of the interdisciplinary threads from which the tapestry of biophysical studies is woven; two, to provide an insight into the power of the modeling approach to scientific investigation; and three, to communicate a sense of excitement for the activity and wholesome argument that characterize this field of study.

Nanoneuroscience

Author : Nancy J. Woolf
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642035838
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Nanoneuroscience written by Nancy J. Woolf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanoneuroscience is the study of computationally relevant biomolecules found inside neurons. Because of recent technological advances at the nanometer scale, scientists have at their disposal increasingly better ways to study the brain and the biophysics of its molecules. This book describes how biomolecules contribute to the operations of synapses and perform other computationally relevant functions inside dendrites. These biomolecular operations considerably expand the brain-computer analogy - endowing each neuron with the processing power of a silicon-based multiprocessor. Amazingly, the brain contains hundreds of billions of neurons.

Physics of Bio-Molecules and Cells

Author : Henrik Flyvbjerg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540457011
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Physics of Bio-Molecules and Cells written by Henrik Flyvbjerg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at those working to enter this rapidly developing field, this volume on biological physics is written in a pedagogical style by leading scientists giving explanations that take their starting point where any physicist can follow and end at the frontier of research in biological physics. These lectures describe the state-of-the-art physics of biomolecules and cells. In biological systems ranging from single biomolecules to entire cells and larger biological systems, it focuses on aspects that require concepts and methods from physics for their analysis and understanding, such as the mechanics of motor proteins; how the genetic code is physically read and managed; the machinery of protein--DNA interactions; force spectroscopy of biomolecules' velopes, cytoskeletons, and cytoplasms; polymerization forces; listeria propulsion; cell motility; lab-on-a-chip nanotechnology for single-molecule analysis of biomolecules; bioinformatics; and coding and computational strategies of the brain.

Molecular and Cellular Biophysics

Author : Meyer B. Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521624411
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Molecular and Cellular Biophysics written by Meyer B. Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molecular and Cellular Biophysics provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a foundation in the basic concepts of biophysics. Students who have taken physical chemistry and calculus courses will find this book an accessible and valuable aid in learning how these concepts can be used in biological research. The text provides a rigorous treatment of the fundamental theories in biophysics and illustrates their application with examples. Conformational transitions of proteins are studied first using thermodynamics, and subsequently with kinetics. Allosteric theory is developed as the synthesis of conformational transitions and association reactions. Basic ideas of thermodynamics and kinetics are applied to topics such as protein folding, enzyme catalysis and ion channel permeation. These concepts are then used as the building blocks in a treatment of membrane excitability. Through these examples, students will gain an understanding of the general importance and broad applicability of biophysical principles to biological problems.