TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maly,Ivan V.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Systems Biomechanics of the Cell
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Bioengineering,
SN  - 9781461468837
AV  - R856-857 
U1  - 610.28 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Cell biology
KW  - Biophysics
KW  - Biological physics
KW  - Biomedical engineering
KW  - Biomedical Engineering
KW  - Cell Biology
KW  - Biophysics and Biological Physics
N1  - Introduction -- Instability of symmetry -- Unipolar cell body -- Bipolar cell body -- Boundary dynamics -- Emergent irreversibility -- Dissipative oscillations
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6883-7
ER  -