Theoretical model of endocytosis

Authors

  • E. V. Timofeyeva Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine, NAS of Ukraine 23, Pereyaslavskaya Str., Kharkiv, Ukraine, 61015 Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7124/bc.0006C8

Abstract

The author formulates the main principles of an endocytosis' theoretical model, based on the idea of periodical changes in cell volume as a result of nonlinear biochemical reactions of integration-disintegration occurring in cytoplasm. On the basis of the endocytosis model proposed we have explained and predicted some mechanisms of this phenomenon.

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Published

2004-09-20

Issue

Section

Short Communications