Transport Across Single Biological Membranes

✍ Scribed by R. I. Macey (auth.), Professor Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 458
• Series: Membrane Transport in Biology 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This second Volume in the series on Membrane Transport in Biology contains a group of essays on transport across single biological membranes separating the inside and outside of cells or organelles. We have not attempted to include material on all types of plasma and intracellular membranes, but rather have emphasized structures which have been studied relatively thoroughly. Four chapters describe transport of different types of molecules and ions across the plasma membranes of mammalian red cells. Two essays concern the excitable membranes of nerve and muscle cells while the remaining four chapters treat transport across several types of intracellular membranes. Water makes up more than two-thirds of the mass of most living cells. The transport of water between the inside and outside of cells and organelles is important for the function of these structures. As a result of investigations in many laboratories over the past four decades, our picture of the water permea­ bility of the red cell membranes is rather detailed when compared to the water permeability of other biological membranes. In Chapter 1, R. I. Macey describes this picture and also considers the permeability of red cell membranes to non­ electrolytes, including metabolic substrates such as sugars, amino acids, purines and nucleosides.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Transport of Water and Nonelectrolytes Across Red Cell Membranes....Pages 1-57
Transport of Anions Across Red Cell Membranes....Pages 59-80
Passive Cation Fluxes in Red Cell Membranes....Pages 81-115
Active Cation Transport in Human Red Cells....Pages 117-160
Transport Across Axon Membranes....Pages 161-210
Ionic Movements Across the Plasma Membrane of Skeletal Muscle Fibers....Pages 211-262
Transport Across Mitochondrial Membranes....Pages 263-355
Transport Across Sarcoplasmic Reticulum in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle....Pages 357-393
Transport Across the Lysosomal Membrane....Pages 395-409
Transport Across Chloroplast Envelopes The Role of Phosphate....Pages 411-439
Back Matter....Pages 441-446

✦ Subjects

Medicine/Public Health, general