Membrane Processes

1. Front Matter

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2. Structural and Functional Relationships in Cell Membranes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Reconstituted Membrane Systems

      • J. M. Wrigglesworth

      Pages 3-26

   3. Molecular Aspects of Membrane Fusion

      • J. A. Lucy

      Pages 27-48

   4. Microheterogeneity in Biological Membranes

      • R. P. Holmes, T. L. Smith, F. A. Kummerow

      Pages 49-64

   5. Molecular Composition and Functional Properties of Human Liver Mitochondria

      • Gh. Benga

      Pages 65-91

   6. Some Problems Concerning the Role of Water and Protons in the Function of Biological Membranes

      • V. Vasilescu, E. Katona, A. Popescu, C. Zaciu, C. Ganea

      Pages 92-107

3. Factors Affecting Membrane Permeability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Proton Flux Across Model and Biological Membranes

      • D. W. Deamer

      Pages 111-120

   3. Water Diffusion Through Erythrocyte Membranes in Normal and Pathological Subjects: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigations

      • V. V. Morariu, Gh. Benga

      Pages 121-139

   4. Virally Mediated Changes in Cellular Permeability

      • C. A. Pasternak

      Pages 140-166

   5. Transmembrane Calcium Fluxes and Cell Death

      • H. Baum, R. F. G. Booth

      Pages 167-176

4. Physiological Changes Affecting Membrane Properties

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Oxidative Damage in Exercising Muscle and Mitochondria

      • L. Packer, A. T. Quintanilha

      Pages 179-189

   3. Early Events in Stimulus-Response Coupling Using Neutrophils as a Model System

      • R. I. Sha’afi, P. H. Naccache

      Pages 190-208

   4. Pathological Sequelae of Irritant-Induced Phagocytosis Exemplified by Pulmonary Emphysema

      • S. Smith, H. Baum

      Pages 209-230

   5. Regulation of Erythropoiesis and Possible Implications of the Cell Membrane

      • I. Baciu

      Pages 231-251

5. Back Matter

   Pages 253-261

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The burgeoning interest in biomembranes in recent years has been such that "membranology" is now virtuMtyasubject in its own right, cutting vertically, as it were, through the strata of conventional disciplines from mathematics and physics, through chemistry, to biology. The very scope of the topic is thus so daunting that it is tempting to treat it only at one stratum of this hierarchy, be it the biophysics of phospholipid bilayers or the biochemistry of interactions at the cell surface. Such an approach is entirely valid, particularly among specialists with common interests. However, this approach does present a distorted perspective to the newcomer to the field, and, more significantly, it fails to stimulate cross fertil­ ization of ideas among workers at the various disciplinary levels. For example, as in all areas of molecular biology, the clinicians are frequently unaware of the contributions to their problems that might be made by the application of more basic knowledge and techniques. Conversely, biochemists or biophysicists may be ignorant of the existing practical problems to which they might address their expertise.

• Baum
• Biomembran
• Membrane
• Membrantransport
• biochemistry
• biophysics

• Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical and Pharmaceutical Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Roumania

  Gheorghe Benga

• Department of Biochemistry, Chelsea College, University of London, London, UK

  Harold Baum

• Department of Food Science Burnside Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

  Fred A. Kummerow

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