Channels, Carriers, and Pumps: An Introduction to Membrane Transport - Softcover

Stein, Wilfred D.

9780123959102: Channels, Carriers, and Pumps: An Introduction to Membrane Transport

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0123959101 ISBN 13: 9780123959102

Publisher: Academic Press, 2012

For students as well as researchers this book describes the exciting new advances in the molecular biology of transport proteins and integrates this information with transport kinetics, function, and regulation. Experimental data are linked with theory.

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Review:

"...an excellent resource on the current understanding of channels, carriers, and pumps as well as transport processes and their important roles in health and disease. Score: 91 = 4 Stars"--Doody's, Channels, Carriers, and Pumps, Second Edition

Praise for the previous edition: It has become the "Bible" for my lab. ~Tony Carruthers, Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UMass Medical School

The strength of this book is the way in which rigorous yet lucid expositions of the theoretical basis of various types of transport are integrated with illuminating discussions of experimental results. [This book] will continue to be rewarding reading when many symposium reports have become outdated, and it is warmly welcomed and recommended. ~D.K. Apps, FEBS LETTERS, August 1991

With so much diversity in biology it is exhilarating to read Stein’s attempt at synthesis. More of this is needed . . . Stein’s book should earn a place of its own, for it does something that few others attempt: it puts channels, carriers, and pumps under one roof . . . the book’s greatest value: its potential for catalytic action on sometimes disparate fields. ~Louis J. DeFelice, California Institute of Technology, CELL, August 1991

About the Author:

Wilfred Stein is the author of three previous books on membrane transport, the first appearing almost fifty years ago. He has edited numerous books and written some 180 papers on various aspects of membrane transport and especially transport kinetics. These papers, especially those written together with his colleague William Lieb, defined many of the concepts used today in discussing movement across cell membranes. More recently he has turned to the study of the kinetics of drugs used in cancer therapy and in the treatment of malaria. He has taught biochemistry, biophysics and physiology at the University of Manchester and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Biophysics at the Hebrew University. He is married to a librarian and has four children and nine grandchildren.

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