Front Cover; The Movement of Molecules Across Cell Membranes; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Table of Contents; Glossary of Symbols; CHAPTER 1. The Anatomy of the Plasma Membrane; 1.1 Some Considerations of Methodology; 1.2 Structure and Composition of the Cell Membrane; 1.3 The Structure of Myelin Forms-A Model System for the Cell Membrane; 1.4 Nerve Myelin; 1.5 Physical Stability of the Bimolecular Lipid Leaflet; 1.6 Surface Tension of the Cell; 1.7 Conclusions; CHAPTER 2. General Aspects of Diffusion across Membranes; 2.1 Permeability and Diffusion Coefficients

4.7 The Dimerizer Hypothesis for Facilitated DiffusionCHAPTER 5. The Coupling of Active Transport and Facilitated Diffusion; 5.1 The Development of the View That Sodium Transport and Metabolite Transport Are Coupled; 5.2 Experimental Tests of the Co-transport Model; 5.3 The Kinetics of Co-transport; 5.4 The Distribution Ratios at the Steady State; 5.5 A Tertiary Active Transport System?; CHAPTER 6. The Primary Active Transport Systems; 6.1 Criteria for Distinguishing between Primary and Secondary Active Transport Systems

6.2 Indications That Certain Active Transport Systems May Not Be Linked to Other Driving Fluxes6.3 The Linkage of Active Transport to Chemical Reactions; 6.4 Kinetics of the Primary Transport Systems; 6.5 Primary Active Transport Systems Uncoupled to the Energy Input; 6.6 The Kinetics of ""Pump"" and ""Leak"" Systems; 6.7 Ion Pumping by Epithelial Cell Layers; CHAPTER 7. The Movement of Water; 7.1 The Volume of a Cell at the Steady State; 7.2 Why a Linked Sodium/Potassium Pump?; 7.3 Transport across Epithelial Cell Layers; CHAPTER 8. Molecular Properties of the Transport Systems