Download or read book Biophysical Thermodynamics of Intracellular Processes written by Lev A. Blumenfeld and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is aimed at a large audience: from students, who have a high school background in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and biology, to scien tists working in the fields of biophysics and biochemistry. The main aim of this book is to attempt to describe, in terms of physical chemistry and chemi cal physics, the peculiar features of "machines" having molecular dimen sions which play a crucial role in the most important biological processes, viz., energy transduction and enzyme catalysis. One of the purposes of this book is to analyze the physical background of the high efficiency of molecu lar machines functioning in the living cell. This book begins with a brief review of the subject (Chapter 1). Macro molecular energy-transducing complexes operate with thermal, chemical, and mechanical energy, therefore the appropriate framework to discuss the functioning of biopolymers comes from thermodynamics and chemical kinet ics. That is why we start our analysis with a consideration of the conventional approaches of thermodynamics and classical chemical kinetics, and their application to the description of bioenergetic processes (Chapter 2). Critical analysis of these approaches has led us to the conclusion that the conven tional approaches of physical chemistry to the description of the functioning of individual macromolecular devices, in many cases, appear to be incom plete. This prompted us to consider the general principles ofliving machinery from another point of view."
Download or read book Thermodynamics and Regulation of Biological Processes written by Ingolf Lamprecht and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Thermodynamics and Regulation of Biological Processes".
Download or read book Thermodynamics of Biological Processes written by Ingolf Lamprecht and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Thermodynamics of Biological Processes".
Download or read book Biology and Information written by Karl Sigmundovich Trincher and published by Springer. This book was released on 1965 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Biological Processes written by David Jou and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thermodynamics and Pattern Formation in Biology written by Ingolf Lamprecht and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Thermodynamics and Pattern Formation in Biology".
Download or read book Biological Thermodynamics written by Donald T. Haynie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to thermodynamics for undergraduate biology and biochemistry students.
Download or read book Thermodynamic Bases of Biological Processes written by A. I. Zotin and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles and Models of Biological Transport written by Morton H. Friedman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus, Organization, and Content This book, like the first edition, deals with the mass transport processes that take place in living systems, with a focus on the normal behavior of eukaryotic cells and the - ganisms they constitute, in their normal physiological environment. As a consequence of this focus, the structure and content of the book differ from those of traditional transport texts. We do not start with the engineering principles of mass transport (which are well presented elsewhere) and then seek biological applications of these principles; rather, we begin with the biological processes themselves, and then - velop the models and analytical tools that are needed to describe them. This approach has several consequences. First of all, it drives the content of the text in a direction distinctively different from conventional transport texts. This is - cause the tools and models needed to describe complex biological processes are often different from those employed to describe more well-characterized inanimate systems. Many biological processes must still be described phenomenologically, using me- odologies like nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Simple electrical analogs employing a paucity of parameters can be more useful for characterization and prediction than complex theories based on the behavior of more well-defined systems on a laboratory bench. By allowing the biology to drive the choice of analysis tools and models, the latter are consistently presented in the context of real biological systems, and analysis and biology are interwoven throughout.
Download or read book The Thermodynamic Machinery of Life written by Michal Kurzynski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-09 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thermodynamics was created in the ?rst half of the 19th century as a theory designed to explain the functioning of heat engines converting heat into mechanical work. In the course of time, while the scope of research in this ?eld was being extended to a wider and wider class of energy transformations, thermodynamics came to be considered as a general theory of machines identi?ed with energy transducers. Imp- tant progress in biochemistry in the ?rst half of the 20th century, and in molecular biology in the second half, made it possible to think of treating even living organisms as machines, at least on the subcellular level. However, success in applying thermodynamics to elucidate the phenomenon of life has been rather mitigated. Two reasons seem to be responsible for this unsatisfactory s- uation. Nineteenth century thermodynamics dealt only with simple (homogeneous) systems in complete equilibrium. Although during the 20th century a nonequilibrium thermodynamics was developed, sta- ing with the Onsager theory of linear response and ending with the Prigogine nonlinear theory of dissipative structures, these theories still concern the originally homogeneous systems. Because living organisms are complex systems with a historically frozen spatial and functional structure, a thermodynamics of both nonequilibrium and complex s- tems is needed for their description. The ?rst goal of the present book is to formulate the foundations of such a thermodynamics.
Download or read book Thermodynamics in Biology written by Enrico Di Cera and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrico Di Cera, a rising star in biophysics, has organized a superb group of authors to write substantial chapters covering the most exciting and central issues relating to the bioenergetic aspects of proteins, nucleic acids, and their interactions. Topics covered in this book are protein and nucleic acid folding and stability, enzyme-substrate interactions, prediction of the affinity of complexes, electrostatics, and non-equilibrium aspects of protein function. The breadth of the topics covered in this book illustrates the growing importance of thermodynamic approaches in the study of biological phenomena. The book should be of wide interest to biophysicists, biochemists, and structural biologists.
Download or read book Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Biological Processes written by Ingolf Lamprecht and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Biological Processes".
Download or read book Biothermodynamics written by J. T. Edsall and published by . This book was released on 1983-04-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history and biological processes of thermodynamics. The first half of the book covers theoretical aspects of thermodynamic principles which will aid in understanding biochemical processes. Later chapters deal with the interpretation of data obtained from biochemical reactions, ligand binding, and calorimetric measurements on biological systems.
Download or read book Bioenergetics written by Lars Garby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original authors-see later for detail
Download or read book Cellular Energetics written by Frank Diederichs and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph describes metabolic and transport reactions of muscle cells using the laws of chemical thermodynamics. In particular, the thermodynamics of irreversible processes are used to formulate coupled reactions and their outcome on steady state cycling. The effects of ATP cycling on energy metabolism and heat production is described. The results of mathematical simulations of metabolism are used to underline theoretical approaches.
Download or read book Dynamic Biological Organization written by Miguel A. Aon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic Biological Organization is a fascinating account of the living organisms as dynamic systems, based on the concept that the spatio-temporal coherence of events within a living system result from the intrinsic dynamics of the processes taking place within that sysem. The authors of this important work, Miguel Aon and Sonia Cortassa have travelled widely to work in some of the leading research laboratories to accumulate a large information base on which to assemble this book. Taking a transdisciplinary approach, the authors draw on work at the interface of biochemistry, genetics, physiology, thermodynamics, kinetics and biomathematics, using mathematical models throughout to corroborate and analyze the biological complexity presented. Emphasizing biological processes occuring at the cellular level. Dynamic Biological Organization gives exciting insights into the experimental and theoretical applications of modern scientific paradigms to fundamental biological processes.
Download or read book Biology and Information written by K. Trincher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-07 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
