Systems Biomechanics of the Cell
By: by Ivan V. Maly
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Bioengineering -- 1
Publisher: Springer US; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 55
ISBN-13: 9781461468837
Subjects: Cytology; Engineering; Biomedical engineering; Biophysics and Biological Physics
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Instability of symmetry; title: Unipolar cell body; title: Bipolar cell body; title: Boundary dynamics; title: Emergent irreversibility; title: Dissipative oscillations.