TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Systems Biomechanics of the Cell
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Bioengineering,
A1  - Maly, Ivan V.
LA  - English
PP  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer US : Imprint: Springer
YR  - 2013
ED  - 1st ed. 2013.
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/978-1-4614-6883-7
AB  - Systems Biomechanics of the Cell attempts to outline systems biomechanics of the cell as an emergent and promising discipline. The new field owes conceptually to cell mechanics, organism-level systems biomechanics, and biology of biochemical systems. Its distinct methodology is to elucidate the structure and behavior of the cell by analyzing the unintuitive collective effects of elementary physical forces that interact within the heritable cellular framework. The problematics amenable to this approach includes the variety of cellular activities that involve the form and movement of the cell body and boundary (nucleus, centrosome, microtubules, cortex, and membrane). Among the elementary system effects in the biomechanics of the cell, instability of symmetry, emergent irreversibility, and multiperiodic dissipative motion can be noted. Research results from recent journal articles are placed in this unifying framework. It is suggested that the emergent discipline has the potential to expand the spectrum of questions asked about the cell, and to further clarify the physical nature of animate matter and motion.
OP  - 55
CN  - R856-857
SN  - 9781461468837
KW  - Biomedical engineering.
KW  - Cell biology.
KW  - Biophysics.
KW  - Biological physics.
KW  - Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.
KW  - Cell Biology.
KW  - Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.
ER  -