Thermodynamic Network Analysis of Biological Systems
The first edition of this book was greeted with broad interest from readers en gaged in various disciplines of biophysics. I received many stimulating and en couraging responses, however, some of the book's reviewers wanted to stress the fact that an extensive literature of network theory was...
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Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1981, 1981
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Edition: | 2nd ed. 1981 |
Series: | Universitext
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Models
- 2.1 The Purpose and Nature of Models
- 2.2 Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions and the Michaelis-Menten Kinetics
- 2.3 Transport Across Membranes: A Black-Box Approach
- 2.4 Excitation of the Nervous Membrane: Hodgkin-Huxley Equations
- 2.5 A Cooperative Model for Nerve Excitation
- 2.6 The Volterra-Lotka Model
- 2.7 A Model for the Control of Metabolic Reaction Chains
- 3. Thermodynamics
- 3.1 Thermodynamics Systems
- 3.2 The First Law of Thermodynamics
- 3.3 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- 3.4 Temperature and Transfer of Heat
- 3.5 Chemical Potential and the Transfer of Matter
- 3.6 Chemical Reactions
- 3.7 Some Basic Relations of Equilibrium Thermodynamics
- 3.8 Perfect Gases and Ideal Mixtures
- 3.9 Linear Irreversible Thermodynamics
- 4. Networks
- 4.1 Network Language and Its Processes
- 4.2 Storage Elements: Generalized Capacitances
- 4.3 Kirchhoff’s Current Law and the 0-Junction
- 4.4 Unimolecular Reactions
- 4.5 Higher-Order Reactions, Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law and the 1-Junction
- 4.6 Diffusion
- 5. Networks for Transport Across Membranes
- 5.1 Pore Models
- 5.2 Pore Blocking
- 5.3 Self-Blocking of Pores
- 5.4 Carrier Models
- 5.5 Active Transport
- 5.6 Hodgkin-Huxley Equations and the Coupling of Material and Electric Flux
- 5.7 Nernst-Planck Equations
- 5.8 The Photoreceptor Potential
- 6. Feedback Networks
- 6.1 Autocatalytic Feedback Loops
- 6.2 An Autocatalytic Excitation Model
- 6.3 Networks of A1-Elements
- 6.4 Limit Cycle Networks
- 7. Stability
- 7.1 Capacitances as Thermodynamic Equilibrium Systems
- 7.2 Stability of the Equilibrium State
- 7.3 Tellegen’s Theorem and Liapunov Stability of the Equilibrium
- 7.4 Glansdorff-Prigogine Criterion for the Stability of Nonequilibrium Steady States
- 7.5 Uniqueness of SteadyStates
- 7.6 Globally and Asymptotically Stable Networks
- 7.7 Global Stability Techniques
- References