Cell Movement and Cell Behaviour

Cell Movement and Cell Behaviour

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lackie, J.M. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1986.
Edición:1st ed. 1986.
Materias:
Animal anatomy.
Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.
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.

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