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Advances in Biological and Medical Physics, Volume 15 covers papers on the productive applications of physical science in biology and medicine. The book presents articles dealing with the geometric influence of bone matrix on the differentiation of fibroblasts and information on human repetitious DN...
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York ; London : |
| Publication Dates: | 1974. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00652245/15 |
| Summary: |
Advances in Biological and Medical Physics, Volume 15 covers papers on the productive applications of physical science in biology and medicine. The book presents articles dealing with the geometric influence of bone matrix on the differentiation of fibroblasts and information on human repetitious DNA; the complexity of the human genome; and possible directions for future research. The text then describes the problem of biological time. The microcirculatory basis of fluid exchange is also considered. The book concludes with articles dealing with the possibilities for electron microscopy and dif. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781483214993 1483214990 |
| Index Number: | QH505 |
| CLC: | Q6 |
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Front Cover; Advances in Biological and Medical Physics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 15; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. BONE MATRIX IN THE SOLID STATE: GEOMETRIC INFLUENCE ON DIFFERENTIATION OF FIBROBLASTS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. PREPARATION OF THE TRANSFORMANT AND EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; III. SEQUENTIAL CHANGES DURING THE DIFFERENTIATION OF FIBROBLASTS; IV. SPECIFICITY OF THE TRANSFORMANT; V. INFLUENCE OF THE GEOMETRY OF THE TOOTH MATRIX ON FIBROBLAST DIFFERENTIATION; VI. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE BONE MATRIX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. HUMAN REPETITIOUS DNA I. INTRODUCTIONII. THE HUMAN GENOME; III. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. THE SENSE OF TIME: EVIDENCE FOR ITS MOLECULAR BASIS IN THE EUKARYOTIC GENE-ACTION SYSTEM; I. To ""SENSE"" THE TIME Is TO READ BIOLOGICAL TIME FROM AN INTERNAL BIOLOGICAL CLOCK; II. THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK IS A CIRCADIAN CLOCK, AND BIOLOGICAL TIME IS DISTINCT FROM SIDEREAL OR SOLAR TIME; III. THE CIRCADIAN CLOCK IS A SYSTEMS PROPERTY; ITS LOWEST LEVEL OF MANIFESTATION IS THE EUKARYOTIC CELL Iv. the circadian oscillation is an inevitable output of the infradian growth mode, and a general property of the eukaryotic cell cyclev. evidence from many sources converges on the gene-action system as the basic circadian oscillator; vi. circadian temporal order arises in gene action; vii. the chronon theory: distance/rate = time; viii. circadian systems display circadian molecular chronotypes; ix. circadian cybernetics: a unifying discipline in the biology of higher organisms; acknowledgments; circadian glossary; references; chapter 4. time in organic evolution; i. introduction II. ORGANIC EVOLUTION: DEFINITION AND NEO-DARWINIAN THEORYIII. VARIABILITY: MUTATION AND MIGRATION; IV. RACES, SELECTION, AND POPULATION DYNAMICS; V. MOLECULAR EVOLUTION AND NEUTRAL MUTATIONS; VI. SPECIATION; VII. TIME AND THE EVOLUTION OF HIGHER TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES; VIII. RATES OF EVOLUTION IN RECENT POPULATIONS; IX. EVOLUTION OF MAN; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. MICROCIRCULATORY BASIS OF FLUID EXCHANGE; I. BACKGROUND; II. CONSTITUENTS IN FLUID EXCHANGE; III. MACROSCOPIC OR WHOLE-ORGAN APPROACH; IV. MICROSCOPIC SINGLE-VESSEL APPROACH; V. MlCROVASCULAR MODELS Vi. capillary blood flow and exchange flowvii. summary statement; references; chapter 6. electron microscopy and diffraction of wet unstained and unfixed biological objects; i. introduction; ii. contrast and resolution of wet biological objects; iii. thin-film-window environmental chambers; iv. differentially pumped, aperture-limited environmental chambers; v. comparison of thin-film and differentially pumped chambers with respect to resolution and ease of operation; vi. techniques of operating differentially pumped hydration chambers; vii. obtaining thermodynamic equilibrium with water vapor |