Nonlinear Electrodynamics in Biological SystemsW. Adey The past half century has seen an extraordinary growth in the fields of cellular and molecular biology. From simple morphologi cal concepts of cells as the essential units of living matter there has been an ever-sharper focus on functional organization of living systems, with emphasis on molecular dynamics. Thus, life forms have come to be defined increasingly in terms of metabolism, growth, reproduction and responses to environmental perturbations. Since these properties occur in varying degrees in systems below the level of cellular organization, there has been a blurring of older models that restricted the concepts of life to cellular systems. At the same time, a search has begun for elemental as pects of molecular and atomic behavior that might better define properties common to all life forms. This search has led to an examination of nonlinear behavior in biological macromolecules, whether in response to electrical or chemical stimulation, for example, or as a means of signaling along a molecular chain, or as a means of energy transfer. Experimental knowledge in this area has grown rapidly in the past decade, and in some respects has outstripped theoretical models adequate to ex plain these new observations. Nevertheless, it can be claimed that there is now an impressive body of experiments implicating non linear, nonequilibrium processes as fundamental steps in sequential operations of biological systems. |
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Nonthermal Resonant Action of Millimeter Microwaves | 59 |
Effects on Nervous Tissue of Exposure to Electromagnetic | 65 |
Neurotransmitter Release Stimulated in a Clonal Nerve Cell | 79 |
Natural AC Electric Fields In and About Cells | 87 |
The Energetics and Molecular Dynamics of the Proton Pumping | 107 |
Presence of Nonlinear Excitations in DNA Structure and Their | 121 |
Electromagnetic Surface Wave Penetration of Biological | 339 |
Conceptual Models of Cooperative Processes in Nonlinear | 347 |
143 | 410 |
Field Induced Resonance and Chaos in Nonlinear Conservative | 413 |
Solitary Waves As Fixed Points of Infinite Dimensional | 433 |
Nonlinear Phenomena in a Dispersive System With | 443 |
177 | 465 |
Boson Condensation in Biological Systems | 469 |
Solitons and Bioenergetics | 133 |
Nonlinear Dynamics of Globular Proteins | 143 |
Solitons in Synthetic and Biological Polymers | 155 |
Picosecond Relaxations in Proteins and Biopolymers Observed | 177 |
Nonlinear Mechanisms in Molecular Energy Transfer | 187 |
Nonlinear Excitations in Polyacetylene | 201 |
LangmuirBlodgett Films in Microelectronics | 219 |
Nonlinear Tunneling Barriers at High Frequencies and Their | 227 |
Synergism | 243 |
On the Growth of Cellular Tissues Under Constant | 287 |
Spaces | 307 |
Frequency Selective Propagation of Extracellular Electrical | 327 |
201 | 475 |
Order and Structures in Living Systems | 477 |
E Del Giudice S Doglia and M Milani | 487 |
MillimeterWave and FarInfrared Spectroscopic | 497 |
207 | 517 |
Spectroscopic Studies of Nerves | 519 |
The Modification of Davydov Solitons by | 531 |
Nonlinear Phenomena in Bioenergetics and Oncology | 549 |
Nonlinear Electrodynamics in Cytoskeletal Protein | 567 |
Bridging the | 585 |
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