Cell Movement and Cell Behaviour
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Formato: | eBook |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1986.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 1986. |
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Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4071-0 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Why is movement interesting?
- 1.2 What do we mean by ‘movement’?
- 1.3 What causes movement?
- 1.4 An analogy
- 1.5 Motor design — an abstract exercise
- 1.6 How are movements controlled?
- 1.7 Which motor for the task?
- References
- 2 Motors Based on Actomyosin
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Components of the motor
- 2.3 The basic motor
- 2.4 Linear contractile systems
- 2.5 Non-linear: planar systems
- 2.6 Non-linear: solid systems
- 2.7 Control of the motor
- 2.8 Summary
- References
- 3 Motors Based on Microtubules
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Structure of microtubules
- 3.3 Dynein
- 3.4 The basic motor
- 3.5 Cilia and flagella
- 3.6 Movement in the mitotic spindle
- 3.7 Movement associated with cytoplasmic microtubules
- 3.8 Summary
- References
- 4 Motors of Other Sorts
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Bacterial flagella
- 4.3 Other bacterial motors
- 4.4 The spasmoneme of vorticellids
- 4.5 Assembly-disassembly motors
- 4.6 Hydraulic systems
- 4.7 Miscellaneous motor systems
- 4.8 Summary
- References
- 5 Swimming
- 5.1 General
- 5.2 Swimming
- 5.3 Methods of obtaining forward thrust
- 5.4 Control of the direction of ciliary beat
- 5.5 Summary
- References
- 6 Crawling Movement
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 A simplistic analysis of the problem
- 6.3 Amoeba
- 6.4 Fibroblast locomotion
- 6.5 Fibroblast spreading
- 6.6 Movement of other cell types
- 6.7 Summary
- References
- 7 Moving in a Uniform Environment
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Random walks and internal bias
- 7.3 Effects of changes in environmental properties
- 7.4 Roughness
- 7.5 Rigidity and deformability
- 7.6 Summary
- References
- 8 Anisotropic Environments
- 8.1 General
- 8.2 Trapping and avoidance
- 8.3 Gradients
- 8.4 Flow
- 8.5 Magnetic and electric fields
- 8.6 Gravity
- 8.7 Shape
- 8.8 Rigidity
- 8.9 Summary
- References
- 9 Chemotaxis
- 9.1 General
- 9.2 The problem - a theoretical analysis
- 9.3 Bacterial Chemotaxis
- 9.4 Chemotaxis in Paramoecium
- 9.5 Chemotaxis in the cellular slime-moulds
- 9.6 Chemotaxis in Myxobacteria
- 9.7 Chemotaxis of leucocytes
- 9.8 Summary
- References
- 10 Cell-Cell Interactions
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Contact inhibition of locomotion
- 10.3 Consequences of contact inhibition
- 10.4 Escape from normal contact inhibition
- 10.5 Invasiveness as a general phenomenon
- 10.6 Summary
- References.