Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels Biophysics of Molecular Excitability /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leuchtag, H. Richard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Physics.; Biochemistry.; Animal physiology.; Neurobiology.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Animal Physiology.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Animal Biochemistry.

The goal of this book is to explore the complexity of a microscopic bit of matter that exists in a myriad of copies within our bodies, the voltage-sensitive ion channel. We seek to investigate the way in which these macromolecules make it possible for the long fibers of our nerve and muscle cells to...

Table of Contents:

• Exploring Excitability
• Information In The Living Body
• Animal Electricity
• Electrophysiology Of The Axon
• Aspects Of Condensed Matter
• Ions In The Electric Field
• Ions Drift And Diffuse
• Multi-Ion And Transient Electrodiffusion
• Models Of Membrane Excitability
• Admittance To The Semicircle
• What's That Noise?
• Ion Channels, Proteins And Transitions
• Diversity And Structures Of Ion Channels
• Microscopic Models Of Channel Function
• Order From Disorder
• Polar Phases
• Delicate Phases And Their Transitions
• Propagation And Percolation In A Channel
• Screws And Helices
• Voltage-Induced Gating Of Ion Channels
• Branching Out.