Cellular Biophysics is a quantitatively oriented basic physiology text for seniorundergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering, biophysics, physiology, and neuroscienceprograms. It will also serve as a major reference work for biophysicists.Developed from the author'snotes for a course that he has taught at MIT for many years, these books provide a clear and logicalexplanation of the foundations of cell biophysics, teaching transport and the electrical propertiesof cells from a combined biological, physical, and engineering viewpoint.Each volume containsintroductory chapters that motivate the material and present it in a broad historical context.Important experimental results and methods are described. Theories are derived almost always fromfirst principles so that students develop an understanding of not only the predictions of the theorybut also its limitations. Theoretical results are compared carefully with experimental findings andnew results appear throughout. There are many time-tested exercises and problems as well asextensive lists of references.The volume on the electrical properties of cells covers bothelectrically inexcitable cells as well as electrically excitable cells such as neurons and musclecells. Included are chapters on lumped-parameter and distributed-parameter models of cells, linearelectric properties of cells, the Hodgkin-Huxley model of the giant axon of the squid, saltatoryconduction in myelinated nerve fibers, and voltage-gated ion channels.
