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Principles and Models of Biological Transport

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  1. Morton H. Friedman

    1. Applied Physics Laboratory and School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Equilibrium Thermodynamics

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    Pages 1-21

  3. Free Diffusion

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    Pages 22-42

  4. Facilitated Diffusion

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    Pages 43-73

  5. Active Transport

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    Pages 74-104

  6. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

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    Pages 105-133

  7. Models of Transport Across Cell Membranes

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    Pages 134-157

  8. Single Cells

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    Pages 158-192

  9. Epithelial Transport

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    Pages 193-234

  10. Gas Transport

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    Pages 235-249

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 250-260
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About this book

This text is designed for a first course in biological mass transport, and the material in it is presented at a level that is appropriate to advanced undergraduates or early graduate level students. Its orientation is somewhat more physical and mathematical than a biology or standard physiology text, reflecting its origins in a transport course that I teach to undergraduate (and occasional graduate) biomedical engineering students in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins. The audience for my cours- and presumably for this text - also includes chemical engineering undergraduates concentrating in biotechnology, and graduate students in biophysics. The organization of this book differs from most texts that at­ tempt to present an engineering approach to biological transport. What distinguishes biological transport from other mass transfer processes is the fact that biological transport is biological. Thus, we do not start with the engineering principles of mass transport (which are well presented elsewhere) and then seek biological ap­ plications of these principles; rather, we begin with the biological processes themselves, and then develop the tools that are needed to describe them. As a result, more physiology is presented in this text than is often found in books dealing with engineering applica­ tions in the life sciences.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Applied Physics Laboratory and School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, USA

    Morton H. Friedman

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Principles and Models of Biological Transport

  • Authors: Morton H. Friedman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02467-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-02467-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 260

  • Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Biochemistry, general, Cell Biology, Physical Chemistry

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