Cytoplasmic Electric Fields and Electroosmosis: Possible Solution for the Paradoxes of the Intracellular Transport of Biomolecules

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Andreev, Victor P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSKELETON; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROOSMOSIS; EMBRYO CELL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; PLANT CELL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SURFACE CHARGE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASM; ELECTROOSMOSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84876176267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061884     Document Type: Review

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