Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes (3rd Edition) [Hardcover]

Bertil Hille (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 814 pages
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates Inc 2001-07-01; 3rd Edition edition (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878933212
• ISBN-13: 978-0878933211
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #95 in Books > Science & Math > Reference

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps getting better with each Edition, March 26, 2002

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Arnie Layne - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is a must-have for anyone working with excitable cells, be they experimentalists or modelers. It's a great reference book; everything is clearly indexed and almost compulsively cited. I've been using this book since its first edition, and it just keeps getting better each time.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic. Still authoritative., August 13, 2001

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Jihwan Myung (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

This is an authoritative textbook on ion channels that is often quoted in numerous textbooks in neurophysiology. Hille himself has contributed a lot in this field. The Hogkin-Huxley model is the de facto standard model in neurophysiology but certain things about neurons cannot be explained only with voltage-controlled sodium and potassium channels. With the patch-clamp technique, we have found a way to explore other interesting channles. To remind you, there are a world of ion channels! Hille's textbook show there are indeed a variety of channels most of which are poorly understood. As a reviewer below has commented, it also gives a unique insight into the history of neural membrane research. Concepts are explained with clearity. Details measurement techniques.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Concise text from the first expert in the field, April 3, 2000

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Mark Shilkrut - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ionic Channels of Excitable Membranes (Hardcover)

Excellent collection of essays about biophysics of ion channels. Concise, easy to understood, the same time not oversymplified, text from the first rank scientist. The book is suitable for biophysicist and molecular and cellular neuroscientists, although for the last, the book which cover a genetic and cellular components of channel signalling is needed also. The book is also suitable for reader whose knowledge in physics and chemistry is far from beeing the best - the author will remind you the basics in physics and thermodynamics in user friendly and "understoodable" manner.