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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

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Intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in biophysics, physiology, medical physics, cell biology, and biomedical engineering, this wide-ranging text bridges the gap between introductory physics and its application to the life and biomedical sciences. This extensively revised and updated fourth edition reflects new developments at the burgeoning interface between physics and biomedicine. Among the many topics treated are: forces in the skeletal system; fluid flow, with examples from the circulatory system; the logistic equation; scaling; transport of neutral particles by diffusion and by solvent drag; membranes and osmosis; equipartition of energy in statistical mechanics; the chemical potential and free energy; biological magnetic fields; membranes and gated channels in membranes; linear and nonlinear feedback systems; nonlinear phenomena, including biological clocks and chaotic behavior; signal analysis, noise and stochastic resonance detection of weak signals; image formation and description; image reconstruction; hearing and medical ultrasound; atoms and light; near infrared scattering; optical coherence tomography; infrared radiation; ultraviolet light; radiometry and photometry; the interaction of photons and charged particles in tissue; radiological physics and the use of x-rays in diagnosis and therapy; nuclear medicine; and magnetic resonance imaging. Discussion of theory is more closely linked to experiment, and stochastic processes are presented as an integral part of biological systems. A prior course in physics and in calculus is assumed.Over 800 problems (a 44% increase from the third edition) are included to test the student's understanding and to provide additional biological examples. A solutions manual is available to instructors. Each chapter has an extensive list of references as well as useful bibliographies for further reading. Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is also ideal for self study and as a reference for workers in medical and biological research.KEY FEATURES:
  • Provides an excellent background in physics for physicians, biomedical engineers, and biologists;
  • Includes a new chapter on sound and ultrasound and presents stochastic processes as an integral part of biological systems;
  • Emphasizes applications of physics to biomedicine rather than molecular biophysics;
  • Contains numerous problems and exercises for course use and as a reference for self study.

Title : Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

author(s) :  Russell K. Hobbie, Bradley J. Roth

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2007

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Bioenergetics

Bioenergetics

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This new edition of Bioenergetics presents a clear and up-to-date explanation of the chemiosmotic theory and covers mitochondria, bacteria, and chloroplasts. It takes account of the many newly determined structures, such as ATP synthase and the two photosystems of photosynthesis, that provide molecular insight into chemiosmotic energy transduction. This edition includes additional color figures of protein structures and many newly drawn illustrations designed to enable the reader to grasp the fundamental insights that are derived from knowing the structure. Every chapter has been extensively revised and updated and a new chapter on the study of the bioenergetics of mitochondria in the intact cell is included to satisfy the enormous interest in this topic. Written for students and researchers alike, this book is the most current text on the chemiosmotic theory and membrane bioenergetics available.
Key Features * Chapter on the study of bioenergetics of mitochondria in the intact cell
* Appendix listing protein structure resources
* Additional colour plates of protein structures
* Many newly drawn illustrations
* Website

Title : Bioenergetics

author(s) :  David G. Nicholls, Stuart J. Ferguson

Publisher: Academic Press

Year: 2002

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Methods in Modern Biophysics

Methods in Modern Biophysics

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Incorporating dramatic recent advances, this textbook presents a fresh and timely introduction to modern biophysical methods. An array of new, faster and structurally higher-resolving power biophysical methods now enables scientists the examination of the mysteries of life at a molecular level. So students and researchers alike need to know the technological details behind the latest methods so they can choose appropriate tools and make optimal use of them. This innovative text surveys and explains the key ten biophysical methods, including those related to biophysical nanotechnology, scanning probe microscopy, X-ray crystallography, ion mobility spectrometry, mass spectrometry, and proteomics. Containing much information previously unavailable in tutorial form, Methods in Modern Biophysics employs worked examples and more than 260 illustrations to fully detail the techniques and their underlying mechanisms. The book was written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, researchers, lecturers and professors in biophysics, biochemistry, general biology and related fields.

Title : Methods in Modern Biophysics

author(s) :  B. Nolting

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2005

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Chemical Biophysics. Quantitative Analysis of Cellular Systems

Chemical Biophysics. Quantitative Analysis of Cellular Systems

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Chemical Biophysics provides an engineering-based approach to biochemical system analysis for graduate-level courses on systems biology, computational bioengineering and molecular biophysics. It is the first textbook to apply rigorous physical chemistry principles to mathematical and computational modeling of biochemical systems for an interdisciplinary audience. The book is structured to show the student the basic biophysical concepts before applying this theory to computational modeling and analysis, building up to advanced topics and current research. Topics explored include the kinetics of nonequilibrium open biological systems, enzyme mediated reactions, metabolic networks, biological transport processes, large-scale biochemical networks and stochastic processes in biochemical systems. End-of-chapter exercises range from confidence-building calculations to computational simulation projects.

Title : Chemical Biophysics. Quantitative Analysis of Cellular Systems

author(s) :  Daniel A. Beard, Hong Qian

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 2008

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Advanced Techniques in Biophysics

Advanced Techniques in Biophysics

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Technical advancements are basic elements in our life. In biophysical studies, new applications and improvements in well-established techniques are being implemented every day. This book deals with advancements produced not only from a technical point of view, but also from new approaches that are being taken in the study of biophysical samples, such as nanotechniques or single-cell measurements. This book constitutes a privileged observatory for reviewing novel applications of biophysical techniques that can help the reader enter an area where the technology is progressing quickly and where a comprehensive explanation is not always to be found.

Title : Advanced Techniques in Biophysics

author(s) :  José Luis R. Arrondo, Alicia Alonso

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2006

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Physics in Molecular Biology

Physics in Molecular Biology

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Tools developed by statistical physicists are of increasing importance in the analysis of complex biological systems. Physics in Molecular Biology discusses how physics can be used in modeling life. It begins by summarizing important biological concepts, emphasizing how they differ from the systems normally studied in physics. A variety of topics, ranging from the properties of single molecules to the dynamics of macro-evolution, are studied in terms of simple mathematical models. The main focus of the book is on genes and proteins and how they build systems that compute and respond. The discussion develops from simple to complex systems, and from small-scale to large-scale phenomena. This book will inspire advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physics to approach biological subjects from a physicist's point of view. It is self-contained, requiring no background knowledge of biology, and only familiarity with basic concepts from physics, such as forces, energy, and entropy.

Title : Physics in Molecular Biology

author(s) :  Kim Sneppen, Giovanni Zocchi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 2005

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Biophysical Aspects of Transmembrane Signaling

Biophysical Aspects of Transmembrane Signaling

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Transmembrane signaling is one of the most significant cell biological events in the life and death of cells in general and lymphocytes in particular. Until recently biochemists and biophysicists were not accustomed to thinking of these processes from the side of a high number of complex biochemical events and an equally high number of physical changes at molecular and cellular levels at the same time. Both types of researchers were convinced that their findings are the most decisive, having higher importance than the findings of the other scientist population. Both casts were wrong. Life, even at cellular level, has a number of interacting physical and biochemical mechanisms, which finally build up the creation of an "excited" cell that will respond to particular signals from the outer or inner world.
This book handles both aspects of the signalling events, and in some cases tries to unify our concepts and help understand the signals that govern the life and death of our cells. Not only the understanding, but also the interference (e.g. medication) may depend on the full knowledge of both sides.
These above statements are supported by the application of highly diverse physical and biochemical technologies demonstrated and explained by experts who are pioneers of their particular scientific field.

Title : Biophysical Aspects of Transmembrane Signaling

author(s) :  Sandor Damjanovich

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2005

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Biophysics

Biophysics

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(Narosa Publishing House) Univ. of Madras, Chennai, India. Addresses the needs of biologists, biochemists, and medical biophysicists as an introduction to the subject. Based on a graduate one-semester course. Covers topics from quantum mechanics to pre-biotic evolution.

Title : Biophysics

author(s) :  V. Pattabhi, N. Gautham

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2002

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Biology in Physics. Is Life Matter

Biology in Physics. Is Life Matter

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Biology in Physics is a radical new book which bridges the gap between biology and physics. The aim is to promote an interdisciplinary exchange of scientific information and ideas, in order to stimulate cooperation in research. The scope of this volume explores both the concepts and techniques of biophysics and illustrates the latest advances in our understanding of many of the specific mechanisms that are used by living organisms. This volume represents a special effort to bring together the information that would allow a nonbiologically oriented physicist to appreciate the important role that physics plays in life sciences.
  • An introduction to biophysics for non-specialist
  • Covers all the important topices in modern biophysics
  • Takes account of the latest information emerging from biophysical projects
  • Reports on novel therapeutic strategies
  • Presents an advanced-level overview of mechanisms that regulate a variety of processes in organisms ranging from bacterial to whales

Title : Biology in Physics. Is Life Matter

author(s) :  Konstantin Bogdanov

Publisher: AP

Year: 2002

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The Physics of Coronary Blood Flow

The Physics of Coronary Blood Flow

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Coronary blood flow is blood flow to the heart for its own metabolic needs. In the most common form of heart disease there is a disruption in this flow because of obstructive disease in the vessels that carry the flow. The subject of coronary blood flow is therefore associated mostly with the pathophysiology of this disease, rarely with dynamics or physics. Yet, the system responsible for coronary blood flow, namely the "coronary circulation," is a highly sophisticated dynamical system in which the dynamics and physics of the flow are as important as the integrity of the conducting vessels.This book is devoted specifically to the dynamics and physics of coronary blood flow. While it upholds the clinical and pathophysiological issues involved, the book focuses on dynamics and physics, approaching the subject from a strictly biomedical engineering viewpoint. The rationale for this approach is simply that the coronary circulation involves many issues in dynamics and physics, as the book will demonstrate.

Title : Electronique

author(s) :  M. Zamir

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2005

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Applied biophysics : a molecular approach for physical scientists

Applied biophysics : a molecular approach for physical scientists

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This book presents the fundamentals of molecular biophysics, and highlights the connection between molecules and biological phenomena, making it an important text across a variety of science disciplines.
The topics covered in the book include:
  • Phase transitions that occur in biosystems (protein crystallisation, globule-coil transition etc)
  • Liquid crystallinity as an example of the delicate range of partially ordered phases found with biological molecules
  • How molecules move and propel themselves at the cellular level
  • The general features of self-assembly with examples from proteins
  • The phase behaviour of DNA
The physical toolbox presented within this text will form a basis for students to enter into a wide range of pure and applied bioengineering fields in medical, food and pharmaceutical areas.

Title : Applied biophysics - a molecular approach for physical scientists

author(s) :  Tom Waigh

Publisher: J. Wiley & Sons

Year: 2007

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Biophysics : An Introduction


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This is a concise balanced introductin to this subject. Written in an accessible and readable style, the book takes a fresh, modern approach with the author successfully combining key concepts and theory with relevant applications and examples drawn from the field as a whole.
  • A carefully structured introduction to biophysics and medical physics
  • Combines coverage of the basic concepts and ideas along with the more cutting edge developments
  • Assumes little biological or medical knowledge
  • Includes a supplementary website which will include animations, simulations, colour images, additional content, solutions and links to other sites

Title : Biophysics - An Introduction

author(s) :  Rodney Cotterill

Publisher: Wiley

Year: 2002

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Physics in Biology and Medicine

Physics in Biology and Medicine

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Physics for Biology and Medicine, Third Edition covers topics in physics as they apply to the life sciences, specifically medicine, physiology, nursing and other applied health fields. This concise introductory paperback surveys and relates basic physics to living systems. It discusses biological systems that can be analyzed quantitatively, and how advances in the life sciences have been aided by the knowledge of physical or engineering analysis techniques. Applicable courses are biophysics and applied physics. - Provides practical techniques for applying knowledge of physics to the study of living systems - Presents material in a straight forward manner requiring very little background in physics or biology - Includes many figures, examples and illustrative problems and appendices which provide convenient access to the most important concepts of mechanics, electricity, and optics

Title : Physics in Biology and Medicine

author(s) :  Paul Davidovits

Publisher: Elsevier/Academic Press

Year: 2008

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Physics of life

Physics of life

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The purpose of the book is to give a survey of the physics that is relevant for biological applications, and also to discuss what kind of biology needs physics. The book gives a broad account of basic physics, relevant for the applications and various applications from properties of proteins to processes in the cell to wider themes such as the brain, the origin of life and evolution. It also considers general questions of common interest such as reductionism, determinism and randomness, where the physics view often is misunderstood. The subtle balance between order and disorder is a repeated theme appearing in many contexts. There are descriptive parts which shall be sufficient for the comprehension of general ideas, and more detailed, formalistic parts for those who want to go deeper, and see the ideas expressed in terms of mathematical formulas. - Describes how physics is needed for understanding basic principles of biology - Discusses the delicate balance between order and disorder in living systems - Explores how physics play a role high biological functions, such as learning and thinking

Title : Physics of life

author(s) :  Clas Blomberg

Publisher: Elsevier Science

Year: 2007

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Animal World, Factoscope

Animal World, Factoscope

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Ages 8-Adult RIC6720 Factoscope is a series of 6 full-colour books designed to invite students to explore and discover the world of science. Each page provides comprehensive information dealing with one aspect of the topic of the book. Large, vibrantly-coloured artwork, diagrams and photographs support the text on each page.

Title : Animal World, Factoscope

author(s) :  Saddleback Educational Publishing, Bookmatrix

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing

Year: 2007

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Human Body

Human Body

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Title : Human Body

author(s) :  Saddleback Educational Publishing, Bookmatrix

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing

Year: 2007

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Plants, Factoscope

Plants, Factoscope

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Factoscope is a series of six full-colour books designed to invite pupils to explore and discover the world of science. Each page provides comprehensive information dealing with one aspect of the topic of the book. Large, vibrantly-coloured artwork, diagrams and photographs support the text on each page.
The six books in the series are:

  • Earth
  • Plants
  • Animal World
  • Machines and inventions
  • Human body
  • Universe
 Each of the 64 pages contain key facts and terms, highlighting important aspects of text. An index at the back allows the reader to easily locate specific information within the book. Large print allows easier reading for pupils. The series is suitable for pupils from five to twelve years old to read, and of interest to readers from five years of age to adults.

Title : Plants, Factoscope

author(s) :  Saddleback Educational Publishing, Bookmatrix

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing

Year: 2007

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Molecular Cell Biology

Molecular Cell Biology

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Molecular Cell Biology stands out from its peers in this course in that it provides a clear introduction to the techniques and experiments of scientists past and present, not just an “encyclopedia” of information. This experimental emphasis, together with a solid pedagogical framework in the chapters, provides the clearest, most cutting-edge text available.

Title : Molecular Cell Biology

author(s) :  Harvey Lodish, Arnold Berk, Paul Matsudaira, Chris A. Kaiser, Monty Krieger, Matthew P. Scott, Lawrence Zipursky, James Darnell

Publisher: W. H. Freeman

Year: 2008

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Foundations of Systems Biology

Foundations of Systems Biology

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The emerging field of systems biology involves the application of experimental, theoretical, and modeling techniques to the study of biological organisms at all levels, from the molecular, through the cellular, to the behavioral. Its aim is to understand biological processes as whole systems instead of as isolated parts. Developments in the field have been made possible by advances in molecular biology - in particular, new technologies for determining DNA sequence, gene expression profiles, protein-protein interactions, and so on. Foundations of Systems Biology provides an overview of the state of the art of the field. The book covers the central topics of systems biology: comprehensive and automated measurements, reverse engineering of genes and metabolic networks from experimental data, software issues, modeling and simulation, and system-level analysis.

Title : Foundations of Systems Biology

author(s) :  Hiroaki Kitano

Publisher: MIT Press

Year: 2001

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Apoptosis and Autoimmunity: From Mechanisms to Treatments

Apoptosis and Autoimmunity: From Mechanisms to Treatments

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This is the first comprehensive book about the relationship between apoptosis and autoimmune diseases. It offers a unique up-to-date overview on research results on the defective execution of apoptosis and the incomplete clearance of apoptotic cells. The molecular and cellular mechanisms involved are described in detail. As a possible consequence of apoptotic dysfunction, the development of severe autoimmune diseases (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus) is discussed. An outlook on future research topics includes the evaluation of novel therapeutic strategies.

Title : Apoptosis and Autoimmunity - From Mechanisms to Treatments

author(s) :  Joachim R. Kalden, Martin Herrmann

Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Year: 2003

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