Life at High Pressure In the Deep Sea and Other Environments /
The book discusses the ways in which high hydrostatic pressure (i.e. water pressure) affects all grades of life which thrive at pressures much greater those in our normal environment. The deep sea is the best known high pressure environment, where pressures reach a thousand times greater than those...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67587-5 |
Table of Contents:
- High pressure and High pressure environments
- High pressure: molecules, chemical processes and cellular structures
- The high pressure micro-environment of vertebrate load bearing joints- Effects of high pressure on the activity of ordinary animals, including humans, and on the function of their excitable cells and ion channels
- The effects of decompression and subsequent re-compression on the activity of deep sea animals and eukaryote cells. The isobaric collection of deep sea animals.-Molecular adaptation to high pressure: proteins in deep sea animals
- Molecular adaptation to high pressure: membranes
- Prokaryotes at high pressure in the Oceans and the Deep Biosphere
- Hydrothermal vents: the inhabitants, their way of life and their adaptation to high pressure
- Buoyancy at depth
- Divers: Air breathing animals, including humans, at high pressure
- Adaptation to high pressure in the laboratory
- High pressure equipment used in the laboratory, at sea and at depth.