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"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: Introduction to cellular biophysics. Volume 2, From membrane transport to neural signalling.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to cells -- 1.1. Cell structure and chemistry -- 1.2. Properties of cell membranes -- 1.3. Membrane transport processes and their role in cell function -- 1.4. Experimental methods for membrane transport -- 1.5. Chapter summary -- 1.6. Questions, problems, and exercises2. Permeation -- 2.1. Diffusion -- 2.2. Water transport -- 2.3. Concurrent water and solute transport -- 2.4. Chapter summary -- 2.5. Questions, problems, and exercises3. Carrier-based transport -- 3.1. Basic characteristics -- 3.2. Carrier models -- 3.3. Chapter summary -- 3.4. Questions, problems, and exercises4. Ion channels -- 4.1. Ions in solution -- 4.2. Experimental methods for ion permeation -- 4.3. Properties of ion channels -- 4.4. Mathematical models -- 4.5. Examples of ion channels -- 4.6. Chapter summary -- 4.7. Questions, problems, and exercises5. Active transport : ion pumps -- 5.1. Principles of active transport -- 5.2. Chapter summary -- 5.3. Questions, problems, and exercises6. Endo- and exocytosis -- 6.1. Chapter summary -- 6.2. Questions, problems, and exercises7. Active transport: molecular motors 77a-1 -- 7.1. Introduction to molecular motors -- 7.2. Mathematical models of molecular motors -- 7.3. Chapter summary -- 7.4. Questions, problems, and exercises8. Cell homeostasis -- 8.1. What is cell homeostasis? -- 8.2. Regulatory volume responses -- 8.3. Models of primary volume response -- 8.4. Models of volume regulation -- 8.5. Chapter summary -- 8.6. Questions, problems, and exercises9. Homeostasis and transport in epithelial cells -- 9.1. What is the epithelium? -- 9.2. Transport in epithelial layers -- 9.3. Models of epithelial transport -- 9.4. Chapter summary -- 9.5. Questions, problems, and exercises10. Electrical properties of neurons -- 10.1. Structure of a neuron -- 10.2. Early neurophysiology -- 10.3. Resting potential revisited -- 10.4. Electrical equivalent circuit for a cell -- 10.5. The cable model -- 10.6. Chapter summary -- 10.7. Questions, problems, and exercises11. Neuron excitability -- 11.1. Action potentials -- 11.2. Hodgkin-Huxley model -- 11.3. Simplified models -- 11.4. Propagation speed: saltatory conduction in neurons -- 11.5. Chapter summary -- 11.6. Questions, problems, and exercises12. Synaptic transmission -- 12.1. What is a synapse? -- 12.2. Chemical synapses -- 12.3. Electrical synapses -- 12.4. Chapter summary -- 12.5. Questions, problems, and exercises13. Mathematical appendix -- 13.1. Functions -- 13.2. Derivatives -- 13.3. Functions of many variables and partial derivatives -- 13.4. Differential equations -- 13.5. Discrete Markov models -- 13.6. Probability distributions.Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.This book explores how physical principles shape and govern cellular function. Written for undergraduate students in biophysics, life sciences, and physics, it shows how basic processes--such as diffusion, membrane transport, and ion channel activity--give rise to physiological outcomes like homeostasis, neural signaling, and synaptic transmission. The book integrates biological, chemical, and physical perspectives, using accessible mathematics to quantify cellular behavior. Equations are explained intuitively, with emphasis on physical meaning rather than formalism. Designed as both a course text and a reference, it helps readers connect molecular biology with quantitative modeling, offering a clear and approachable framework for understanding how physics drives cellular physiology.Students and instructors in Upper Division (3rd/4th level) and 1st graduate courses in cellular biophysics, biophysics and neuroscience taught within departments of physics, biophysics, cell biology, neuroscience and life sciences.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Dr. Armin Kargol is Professor of Physics and the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., Distinguished Professor in Experimental Physics at Loyola University New Orleans, where he has taught physics and biophysics for over two decades. He earned his PhD in physics from Virginia Tech and completed postdoctoral fellowships in mathematical physics at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) and in cellular biophysics at Tulane University. His research centers on ion channel biophysics and quantitative modeling of cellular physiological processes.Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 8, 2026).

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Collation: 1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780750364126
Classification: 571.634
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Edition: Second edition.
Subject(s): Biophysics.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysics.
Cell Physiological Phenomena.
Cell physiology.
Cells
Cell membranes.
Biological Transport
Synaptic Transmission
Cell Membrane
Cell Membrane.
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