Thermal biophysics of membranes - Heimburg, Thomas (Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2007)
Membranes-an introduction -- Membrane structure -- The composition of biological membranes -- Introduction into thermodynamics -- Water -- Lipid melting -- Phase diagrams -- Statistical models for lipid melting -- Lipid-protein interactions -- Diffusion -- Electrostatics -- Adsorption, binding, and insertion of proteins -- Elasticity and curvature -- Thermodynamics of the elastic constants -- Structural transitions -- Relaxation processes in membranes -- Permeability -- Nerve pulse propagation -- Anesthesia.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-351) and index.
Keywords: Membranes (Biology) -- Thermal properties; Cell Membrane -- physiology; Cell Membrane -- physiology; Models, Biological; Thermodynamics