Water and the cell / edited by Gerald H. Pollack, Ivan L. Cameron, Denys N. Wheatley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollack, Gerald H.

Cameron, Ivan L.

Wheatley, D. N. (Denys N.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cell physiology.

Water in the body.

Cell Physiological Phenomena.

Body Water.

Extracellular Fluid.

Medical Subjects:

Cell Physiological Phenomena.

Body Water.

Extracellular Fluid.

Physical Description:

ix, 354 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2006]

Summary:

This book deals with the role of water in cell function. Though long recognized to be central to cell function, water's role has not received the attention lately that it deserves. This book brings the role of water front and central. It presents the most recent work of the leading authorities on the subject, culminating in a series of sometimes astonishing observations.

Water is a subject of interest to virtually everyone. It is becoming increasingly important in health therapy, in the environment, in chemistry and physics, and certainly in cells. Thus, this groundbreaking volume will be of great interest to a broad audience, well beyond those in biology alone.

The reader will be richly awarded with insights difficult or impossible to obtain in current textbooks, which generally treat water merely as a background carrier with limited significance.

Contents:

1 A Convergence of Experimental and Theoretical Breakthroughs Affirms the PM theory of Dynamically Structures Cell Water on the Theory's 40th Birthday / Gilbert N. Ling 1

2 Molecular Basis of Articular Disk Biomechanics: Fluid Flow and Water Content in the Temporomandibular Disk as Related to Distribution of Sulfur / Christine L. Haskin, Gary D. Fullerton, Ivan L. Cameron 53

3 Coherent Domains in the Streaming Cytoplasm of a Giant Algal Cell / V.A. Shepherd 71

4 The Glassy State of Water: A 'Stop and Go' Device for Biological Processes / S.E. Pagnotta, F. Bruni 93

5 Information Exchange within Intracellular Water / Martin F. Chaplin 113

6 Biology's Unique Phase Transition Drives Cell Function / Dan W. Urry 125

7 The Effects of Static Magnetic Fields, Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields and Mechanical Vibration on Some Physicochemical Properties of Water / Sinerik N. Ayrapetyan, Armine M. Amyan, Gayane S. Ayrapetyan 151

8 Solute Exclusion and Potential Distribution Near Hydrophilic Surfaces / Jianming Zhang, Gerald H. Pollack 165

9 Vicinal Hydration of Biopolymers: Cell Biological Consequences / W. Drost-Hansen 175

10 The Liquid Crystalline Organism and Biological Water / Mae-Wan Ho, Zhou Yu-Ming, Julian Haffegee, Andy Watton, Franco Musumeci, Giuseppe Privitera, Agata Scordino, Antonio Triglia 219

11 The Unfolded Protein State Revisited / Patricio A. Carvajal, Tyre C. Lanier 235

12 Some Properties of Interfacial Water: Determinants for Cell Architecture and Function? / Frank Mayer, Denys Wheatley, Michael Hoppert 253

13 Donnan Potential in Hydrogels of Poly(Methacrylic Acid) and its Potassium Salt / Alexander P. Safronov, Tatyana F. Shklyar, Vadim S. Borodin, Yelena A. Simirnova, Sergey Yu. Sokolov, Gerald H. Pollack, Felix A. Blyakhman 273

14 Biological Significance of Active Oxygen-Dependent Processes in Aqueous Systems / Vladimir L. Voeikov 285

15 The Comprehensive Experimental Research on the Autothixotropy of Water / Bohumil Vybiral 299

16 Non-Bulk-Like Water in Cellular Interfaces / Ivan L. Cameron, Gary D. Fullerton 315

17 The Physical Nature of the Biological Signal, a Puzzling Phenomenon: The Critical Contribution of Jacques Benvensite / Yoléne Thomas, Larbi Kahhak, Jamal Aissa 325

18 Freezing, Flow and Proton NMR Properties of Water Compartments in the Temporomandibular Disc / Christine L. Haskin, Gary D. Fullerton, Ivan L. Cameron 341.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1402049269

9781402049262

OCLC:

71298997

Publisher Number:

9781402049262