Cell Movement and Cell Behaviour
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Product details:
- Edition number Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
- Publisher Springer Netherlands
- Date of Publication 31 August 1986
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780045740352
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 720 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 336 p. 113 illus. Illustrations, black & white 0
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Long description:
Some years ago a book reviewer, perhaps with Freudian honesty, remarked that the book in question 'filled a much needed gap in the literature'. That phrase has haunted the writing of this gap-filler and this preface may be considered an apologia. For a number of years I have found myself teaching various groups of students about cell locomotion and cell behaviour: sometimes science students specializing in cell or molecular biology, sometimes immunologists or pathologists who only wanted a broad background introduction. Those students who were enthusiastic, or who wished to appear so, asked for a general background text (to explain my lectures perhaps), and that is what I hope this book will provide. With luck, other scientists who have only a peripheral interest in cell movement will also find this a useful overview. The more proximate origin of the book was a special 'option' subject which I taught for two years to our Senior Honours Cell Biology students in Glasgow.
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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.- 8.8Rigidity.- 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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