Force Microscopy (eBook)

BHANU P. JENA, PHD, DSc, is the George E. Palade University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Physiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan. In addition, Dr. Jena is Director of the University's NanoBioScience Institute. J. K. HEINRICH HÖRBER, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Physics at University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Preface.

Contributors.

Chapter 1. Porosome: The Universal Secretory Machinery in Cells
(Bhanu P. Jena).

Chapter 2. Molecular Mechanism of SNARE-Induced Membrane Fusion
(Bhanu P. Jena).

Chapter 3. Molecular Mechanism of Secretory Vesicle Content
Expulsion During Cell Secretion (Bhanu P. Jena).

Chapter 4. Fusion Pores in Growth-Hormone-Secreting Cells of the
Pituitary Gland: An AFM Study (Lloyd L. Anderson and Bhanu P.
Jena).

Chapter 5. Properties of Microbial Cell Surfaces Examined by
Atomic Force Microscopy (Yves F. Dufre&ncirc;e).

Chapter 6. Scanning Probe Microscopy of Plant Cell Wall and Its
Constituents (Ksenija Radotić, Miodrag
Mićić, and Milorad
Jeremić).

Chapter 7. Cellular Interactions of Nano Drug Delivery Systems
(Rangaramanujam M. Kannan, Omathanu Pillai Perumal, and
Sujatha Kannan).

Chapter 8. Adapting AFM Techniques for Studies on Living Cells
(J. K. Heinrich Hörber)

Chapter 9. Intermolecular Forces of Leukocyte Adhesion Molecules
(Xiaohui Zhang and Vincent T. Moy).

Chapter 10. Mechanisms of Avidity Modulation in Leukocyte
Adhesion Studied by AFM (Ewa P. Wojcikiewicz and Vincent T.
Moy).

Chapter 11. Resolving the Thickness and Micromechanical
Properties of Lipid Bilayers and Vesicles Using AFM (Guangzhao
Mao and Xuemei Liang).

Chapter 12. Imaging Soft Surfaces by SFM (Andreas Janke and
Tilo Pompe).

Chapter 13. High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy of Biomolecules
in Motion (Tilman E. Schäffer).

Chapter 14. Atomic Force Microscopy in Cytogenetics (S.
Thalhammer and W. M. Heckl).

Chapter 15. Atomic Force Microscopy in the Study of
Macromolecular Interactions in Hemostasis and Thrombosis: Utility
for Investigation of the Antiphospholipid Syndrome (William J.
Montigny, Anthony S. Quinn, Xiao-Xuan Wu, Edwin G. Bovill, Jacob H.
Rand, and Douglas J. Taatjes).

Index