Protoplasmic Streaming - Kamiya, Noburo; SpringerLink (Online service) (Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 1959)
I. Introduction -- II. Types of Streaming -- 1. General survey -- 2. Change in streaming type -- III. Rate and Intensity -- 1. Intracellular velocity distribution -- 2. Rate -- 3. Course and direction of rotational streaming -- 4. Transport-volume and intensity of flow -- IV. Motive Force Responsible for the Protoplasmic Streaming -- 1. Motive force of the rotational streaming -- 2. Motive force of the protoplasmic streaming in myxomycete Plasmodium -- V. Rhythmicity -- 1. Rhythm of motive force generation in the Plasmodium -- 2. Rhythmicity of the protoplasmic motion in plant cells -- VI. Energetics of Protoplasmic Streaming -- 1. Oxygen tension -- 2. Metabolic inhibitors -- 3. The role of ATP in the protoplasmic flow -- 4. Availability of ATP -- VII. Influences of External Factors -- 1. Temperature -- 2. Light -- 3. Ultraviolet rays and other radiations -- 4. Osmotic pressure -- 5. Plasmolysis -- 6. Hydrostatic pressure -- 7. Mechanical pressure -- 8. Gravity -- 9. Centrifugal force -- 10. Electric current -- 11. Action current -- 12. Magnetic field -- 13. Hydrogen ions -- 14 Carbon dioxide -- 15. Salts -- 16. Auxins -- 17. Fat solvents -- 18. Miscellaneous substances -- VIII. Biology and Function of Protoplasmic Streaming -- 1. Inducement of protoplasmic streaming -- 2. Transport of substances -- 3. Locomotion -- 4. Correlation with some physiological activities and seasonal variations -- IX. Experimental Approaches to the Mechanism of Protoplasmic Streaming -- 1. Seat of the motive force in rotational streaming -- 4. Moving fibrils in protoplasm -- 5. The phenomenon of shifting occurring in the plasmagel -- 6. Causal relation between potential difference and the motive force of the protoplasmic streaming -- 7. The mechanochemical system of the protoplasmic streaming -- X. Theories -- 1. Rotational streaming -- 2. Streaming in transvacuolar protoplasmic strand -- 3. Streaming in myxomycete plasmodium -- 4. Independent motion of protoplasmic particles -- XI. Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Author Index.
Keywords: Life sciences; Medicine; Life Sciences, general; Biomedicine, general