Living organisms modeling

The above phenomena have a bearing on various physiological processes, e.g. membrane transport, oscillatory phenomena in cells and living organism, models for sense of taste and smell and flow system associated with cardiac rhythms. 

In five pilot plants that can be used to simulate the route of anionic surfactants from the consumer via the effluent purification plant to the receiving water, possible toxic effects of residual surfactant content and breakdown products of the secondary alkanesulfonates were investigated [102]. As indicators of the effects on living organisms of the effluent in the receiving water, flora and fauna that are frequently encountered in the p-mesosaprobic zone were used as models. The embryo-larval test was also employed as an additional method for the detection of toxic compounds in the water. 

A final example of the simulation of a complex system is a series of MD simulations of bilayer membranes. Membranes are crucial constituents of living organisms they are the scene for many important biological processes. Experimental data are known for model systems for example for the system sodium decanoate, decanol and water that forms smectic liquid crystalline structures at room temperature, with the lipids organized in bilayers. 

Like practically aU living organisms, malaria parasites depend on iron for their growth and replication. This property makes them susceptible to iron deprivation, which can be induced by treatment with iron chelators as shown in in vitro cultures of P. falciparum in animal models of malaria ° and in human trials with... 

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