Overview
This book describes our current understanding of the transport of ions, amino acids, nucleosides, sugars, water and gases across the red blood cell membrane. It also outlines the necessary theoretical background to understand the dynamics of membrane constituents together with the mechanisms of transport pathways (pumps, channels, carriers/cotransporters, residual passive permeability). Separate chapters describe our present ideas about membrane and metabolic disorders as well as red blood cell diseases like malaria, sickle cell disease, and hypertension. The latest findings are explained on the basis of well-established principles. The book and its chapters are thus structured in a manner that makes the material accessible to beginners in the field of red blood cell physiology and biophysics. Active researchers will also benefit from this carefully organized compilation. 51 worldwide leading experts in the field of erythrocyte research contributed to the 31 chapters of this book.
Full Product Details
Author: Ingolf Bernhardt ,
J. Clive Ellory
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: 2003 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 2.780kg
ISBN: 9783540442271
ISBN 10: 3540442278
Pages: 748
Publication Date: 17 April 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From the reviews: Membrane transport is a multi-faceted topic that can be looked at from various angles: biochemical, biophysical, cell biological. `Red Cell Membrane Transport in Health and Disease' features contributions ... from all of these areas, rendering a rather comprehensive treatise. ... Bringing together chemically and physically oriented membrane researchers, the editors have assembled an impressive and varied body of knowledge that ought to be of interest in any laboratory involved in membrane transport research ... . (T. A. Lazar, Hamostaseologie, Issue 3, 2005)
From the reviews: ""Membrane transport is a multi-faceted topic that can be looked at from various angles: biochemical, biophysical, cell biological. ‘Red Cell Membrane Transport in Health and Disease’ features contributions … from all of these areas, rendering a rather comprehensive treatise. … Bringing together chemically and physically oriented membrane researchers, the editors have assembled an impressive and varied body of knowledge that ought to be of interest in any laboratory involved in membrane transport research … ."" (T. A. Lazar, Hämostaseologie, Issue 3, 2005)
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