Cell and Tissue Organization in the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems

• Main Author: Thiriet, Marc (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Biomathematical and Biomechanical Modeling of the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems, 1
• Subjects: Physics.; Cardiology.; Systems biology.; Biomathematics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Fluid mechanics.; Biomedical engineering.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Biomedical Engineering.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Systems Biology.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.

The volumes in this authoritative series present a multidisciplinary approach to modeling and simulation of flows in the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, especially multiscale modeling and coupled simulations. The cardiovascular and respiratory systems are tightly coupled, as their primary fu...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1.  Cells and Tissues
• 2.  Cells of the Blood Circulation
• 3.  Cells of the Ventilatory Tract
• 4.  Cell Structure and Function
• 5.  Protein Synthesis
• 6.  Cell Cytoskeleton
• 7.  Plasma Membrane
• 8.  Extracellular Matrix
• 9.  Intracellular Transport References
• Notations: Aliases and Symbols
• Notations: Prefixes and Suffixes
• Biochemical, Medical and Physical Aliases
• Mathematical Symbols, Molecules, and Physical Quantities
• Index.