Moving questions : a history of membrane transport and bioenergetics /

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Author / Creator:Robinson, Joseph D.
Imprint:New York : Published for the American Physiological Society by Oxford University Press, 1997.
Description:xii, 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:People and ideas series
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2728875
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ISBN:0195105648 (acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-364) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Views in the 1930s
  • 3. Accounting for Asymmetric Distributions of Na[superscript +] and K[superscript +] in Muscle
  • 4. Accounting for Asymmetric Distributions of Na[superscript +] and K[superscript +] in Red Blood Cells
  • 5. Ion Gradients and Ion Movements in Excitable Tissues
  • 6. Epithelial Transport by Frog Skin
  • 7. Contemporary Events: 1939-1952
  • 8. Characterizing the Na[superscript +]/K[superscript +] Pump
  • 9. Identifying the Na[superscript +]/K[superscript +]-ATPase
  • 10. Contemporary Events: 1953-1965
  • 11. Characterizing the Na[superscript +]/K[superscript +]-ATPase
  • 12. Structure and Relatives of the Na[superscript +]/K[superscript +]-ATPase
  • 13. Alternatives
  • 14. Using the Transmembrane Cation Gradients: Transporters and Channels
  • 15. Contemporary Events: 1966-1985
  • 16. Oxidative Phosphorylation: Chemical-coupling Hypothesis
  • 17. Oxidative Phosphorylation: Chemiosmotic Coupling Hypothesis
  • 18. Oxidative Phosphorylation: F[subscript 1], F[subscript 0]F[subscript 1], and ATP Synthase
  • 19. Conclusions
  • App. I. Units of Measurement
  • App. II. Amino Acids and Proteins.