Statistical Geometry of Tissues

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. General Problems
5. Some Basic Principles for the Formation of Structure in Nonlinear Systems of Thermodynamic Kind 1
6. Topologically Stable Patterns in Condensed Matter 13
7. New Types of Order and Stochastic Regimes in Nonlinear Media 35
8. Chirality Wave Propagation and the First Evolutionary Catastrophe 57
9. Nonlinear Bioenergetics 69
10. Selection Between Aging Species 87
11. Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biochemical Systems
12. Pattern Formation and Wave Propagation in Chemical Systems 105
13. Spatial Ordering Processes in Chemical Reactions 127
14. Evolution of Populations of Biothermodynamic Systems Including Birth and Death-Processes 149
15. Monitoring Oscillating Chemical Reactions: The Rate of Heat Production and the Simultaneous Measurement of Other Physical Signals 165
16. Rate Limiting Steps in Oscillating Plant Glycolysis: Experimental Evidence for Control Sites Additional to Phosphofructokinase 185
17. Dynamic Structures in the Fructose-6-Phosphate/Fructose' 1,6-Bisphosphatase Cycle 205
18. Pattern Formation in Biological Systems
19. Morphogenesis of Behaviour and Information Compression in Biological Systems 225
20. Model of Pattern Generation on Plants, Based on the Principles of Minimal Entropy Production 249
21. Structures in Models of Morphogenesis 265
22. Self-Organisation of Biological Morphogenesis: General Approaches and Topo-Geometrical Models 321
23. Topological and Thermodynamic Structures of Morphogenesis 337
24. Fractal Shapes of Cell Membranes and Pattern Formation by Dichotomous Branching Processes 371
25. Autowave Mechanochemical Model for Physarum Shuttle Streaming 395
26. Statistical Geometry of Tissues 415
27. Surface Changes and Shape Formation During Organism Growth 447
28. List of Contributors 459
29. References 465
30. Subject Index 513
31. Backmatter 519