Membrane Fluidity in Biology
Disease Processes
- 1st Edition - August 8, 1985
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Roland C. Aloia, Joan M. Boggs
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 3 5 4 5 - 5
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 0 5 3 0 0 3 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 6 6 4 9 - 7
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Request a sales quoteMembrane Fluidity in Biology, Volume 3: Disease Processes focuses on the relationship of membrane lipid alterations and membrane fluidity to various pathological conditions, providing unique phenomenological conceptualizations of disease states. This book compiles comprehensive reviews on topics such as respiratory distress syndrome, diabetes and receptor function, muscular dystrophies, atherosclerosis, alcohol-membrane effects, and lymphocyte function and cancer. This publication also evaluates the interplay between membrane lipid alterations and membrane fluidity and abnormal cellular function, emphasizing how possible alterations in membrane lipids and cholesterol, and consequent changes in membrane fluidity can influence normal cellular activity and lead to pathological cellular function. This volume is intended for molecular and cellular biologists, clinician-scientists struggling with an understanding of the mechanisms of pathological processes, and biophysicists seeking research problems in pathology to study.
Contributors
Preface
Contents of Other Volumes
1. Effects of Alcohols on Membrane Fluidity and Lipid Composition
I. Introduction
II. Effects of Alcohols on Membranes In Vitro
III. Chronic Effects of Ethanol
IV. Conclusions
References
2. Lipid Fluidity and Respiratory Distress Syndrome
I. Introduction
II. Pulmonary Surfactant in Normal Lungs
III. Pulmonary Surfactant in Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the Premature Newborn Infant
IV. Summary
References
3. Membrane Fluidity in Normal and Malignant Lymphoid Cells
I. Introduction
II. Chemical Determinants and Physical Measurement of Membrane Fluidity
III. Membrane Fluidity in Relation to Differentiation and Proliferation
IV. Alterations in Lipid Fluidity in Leukemic Cell Membranes
V. Summary and Conclusions
References
4. The Relationship of Membrane Fluidity to Degenerative Muscular Diseases
I. Introduction
II. Membrane Structure and Function
III. Brief Description of Some of the Neuromuscular Disorders Studied
IV. Studies Related to Membrane Fluidity in Degenerative Neuromuscular Diseases
V. Conclusion
References
5. Membrane Fluidity and Membrane Receptor Function
I. Introduction
II. Specific Receptor and Hormone Systems
III. Summary and Conclusions
References
6. Membrane Perturbations in Atherosclerosis
I. Introduction
II. Arterial Ultrastructure and Atherosclerosis
III. The Role of the Endothelium
IV. Endothelial Permeability
V. Calcium Fluxes and Atherosclerosis
VI. Interrelationship Between Ca2+ and Other Ionic Gradients
VII. Progression of Atherosclerosis
VIII. Hypothesis on the Development of Atherosclerosis
IX. Membrane Modification in Atherosclerosis
References
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 8, 1985
- No. of pages (eBook): 330
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483235455
- Hardback ISBN: 9780120530038
- eBook ISBN: 9781483266497
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