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Membrane Biomechanics, Volume 86, the latest release in the Current Topics in Membranes series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Lipid bilayers: phase behavior and mechanics, Molecular mechanisms of cell membrane structure modification by omega-3 fatty acids, Mechanical properties of magnetoliposomes, Mechanosensitive ion channels and membrane tension, From cell membrane to the nuclear membrane through modulation of cytoskeleton, Endothelial stiffness in dyslipidemia and aging, Vascular smooth muscle stiffness in aging and vascular disease, Mechanobiology of macrovesicle release and activation, Interplay of membrane cholesterol and substrate on vascular smooth muscle mechanics, and more.

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Author:   Irena Levitan (Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA) ,  Andreea Trache (Texas A&M University, USA)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780128210215

ISBN 10:   0128210214
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   26 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Lipid bilayers: Phase behavior and nanomechanics Lorena Redondo-Morata, Patricia Losada-Pérez and Marina Inés Giannotti 2. Membrane modulatory effects of omega-3 fatty acids: Analysis of molecular level interactions Brendan C. Bunker, Jordan L. De Groot and Manuela A.A. Ayee 3. Cell membrane mechanics and mechanosensory transduction Boris Martinac, Yury A. Nikolaev, Giulia Silvani, Navid Bavi, Valentin Romanov, Yoshitaka Nakayama, Adam D. Martinac, Paul Rohde, Omid Bavi and Charles D. Cox 4. Mechanics of the cell: Interaction mechanisms and mechanobiological models Caleb Liebman, Andrew McColloch, Manoochehr Rabiei, Alan Bowling and Michael Cho 5. Mechanisms of endothelial stiffening in dyslipidemia and aging: Oxidized lipids and shear stress Liz Le Master, Sang Joon Ahn and Irena Levitan 6. Vascular smooth muscle stiffness and its role in aging Andreea Trache, Michael P. Massett and Christopher R. Woodman 7. Mechanobiology of microvesicle release, uptake, and microvesicle-mediated activation Samantha C. Schwager and Cynthia A. Reinhart-King 8. The interplay of membrane cholesterol and substrate on vascular smooth muscle biomechanics Hanna J. Sanyour, Alex P. Rickel and Zhongkui Hong 9. Roles of microglial membranes in Alzheimer's disease Jae-Won Shin and James C. Lee

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Irena Levitan, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD in Biophysics and Neurobiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1994 and completed postdoctoral training at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Institute for Medicine and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the biophysical properties of endothelial membranes and sub-membrane cytoskeleton. Specifically, the studies of her group, which combine computational and experimental biophysical approaches, provided the first comprehensive structural insights into cholesterol regulation of K+ channels. In 2012, she was named a Guyton Distinguished Lecturer “for her quantitative and biophysical work on cholesterol modulation of ion channels and how this can affect integrated organ function”. She and her group also discovered a paradoxical relationship between fluidity/deformability of the membrane and cell stiffness. In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of AIMBE for “outstanding contributions to our understanding of lipid-ion channel interactions, cellular biomechanics and vascular dysfunction under dyslipidemia”. Andreea Trache is at Texas A&M University, USA

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