Biophysical Aspects of Coherence and Biological Order

ISBN-13: 9783662035498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str.

Jiri Pokorny; Tsu-Ming Wu

Opis

Biological order in all living creatures is a fascinating phenomenon. Biochemical reactions and biophysical processes including enormous amount of various entities and structures are coordinated in space and time resulting in highly organized dynamic system with self control. The book consists of analysis of biophysical mechanism of long range interactions based on polar vibrations in microtubules and in actin filaments in cytoskeleton, spectral energy transfer in non-linear systems, excitation of a state far from the thermodynamic equilibrium in systems with energy supply, transition from incoherent to coherent vibration states, generation of endogenous electromagnetic field, information transfer between vibration systems, and interaction energy of vibration systems. The Frohlich vibration system is used."

Spis treści

1. Biological Order.- 2. Thermodynamic Aspects of Order.- 3. Normal Modes.- 4. Quantum Mechanical Theory of Rate Equations.- 5. Energy Condensation.- 6. Coherence in Systems with Random Energy Supply.- 7. Spectral Transformation of Energy.- 8. Oscillating Electric Field Generated by Living Cells.- 9. Information Transfer Between Oscillation Systems.- 10. Interaction Between Vibration Systems.- 11. Heat Bath Coupling Effects.- 12. Coherent States in Cancer Cells.- 13. Appendices.