Description
Transport in Biological Media is a solid resource of mathematical models for researchers across a broad range of scientific and engineering problems such as the effects of drug delivery, chemotherapy, or insulin intake to interpret transport experiments in areas of cutting edge biological research. A wide range of emerging theoretical and experimental mathematical methodologies are offered by biological topic to appeal to individual researchers to assist them in solving problems in their specific area of research. Researchers in biology, biophysics, biomathematics, chemistry, engineers and clinical fields specific to transport modeling will find this resource indispensible.- Provides detailed mathematical model development to interpret experiments and provides current modeling practices- Provides a wide range of biological and clinical applications- Includes physiological descriptions of models
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Modeling momentum and mass transport in cellular biological media: from the molecular to the tissue scaleChapter 2:Thermal pain in tooth: heat transfer, thermomechanics, and ion transportChapter 3: Drug Release in Biological TissuesChapter 4: Transport of Water and Solutes across Endothelial Barriers and Tumor Cell Adhesion in the MicrocirculationChapter 5: Carrier Mediated Transport through BiomembranesChapter 6: Blood flow through capillary networksChapter 7: Models of Cerebrovascular PerfusionChapter 8: Mechanobiology of the Arterial WallChapter 9: Shear Stress Variation and Plasma Viscosity Effect in MicrocirculationChapter 10: Targeted Drug Delivery: Multifunctional Nanoparticles and Direct Micro-drug Delivery to TumorsChapter 11: Electrotransport across Membranes in Biological Media: Electrokinetic Theories and Applications in Drug DeliveryChapter 12: Mass transfer phenomena in electroporationChapter 13: Modeling of cell electroporation and its measurable effects in tissueChapter 14: Modeling Intracellular Transport in Neurons
