I Molecules and Cells. - 1. Membrane Mechanics and Cell Adhesion. - 2. New Birth To Runaway Solitons. - 3. Leukocyte Protopodia. - II Biological Tissues. - 4. Biomechanics of Smooth Muscle. - 5. Smooth Muscle Rheology: In Search of a Specimen. - 6. The Phenomenology of the Heart Muscle. - 7. Determination of Material Properties of Biological Tissues: Pericardium. - 8. In-Vivo Measurement of Regional Strains in Myocardium. - 9. Residual Stress in Arteries. - 10. On the Structural Origin of the Quasilinear Viscoelastic Behavior of Tissues. - 11. Fibrous Skin Mechanics: Superstructure and New Problems. - 12. Mechanism of Osmosis: Hulett's Versus Lewis' View of Altered Solvent in Solution. - III Orthopedics. - 13. A Finite Deformation Theory for Nonlinearly Permeable Soft Hydrated Biological Tissues. - 14. Biomechanics of Tendons and Ligaments. - 15. Bone Mechanics: From Tissue Mechanical Properties to an Assessment of Structural Behavior. - 16. Biomechanics of the Lumbar Spine. - 17. Biomechanics of the Human Gait. - 18. Biomechanics of BoneImplant Interactions. - 19. Mechanics of Healing Soft Tissue Wounds. - IV Circulation. - 20. Biomechanics of the Microcirculation. - 21. Biomechanics of Capillary Blood Flow. - 22. The Static Versus the Dynamic State of the Microvasculature. - 23. Vascular Dynamics and the Endothelium. - 24. Self-excited Oscillation of a Collapsible Tube Conveying Fluid. - V The Lung. - 25. Microvascular Hematocrit of the Lung. - 26. Pulmonary Blood Flow in the Cat: Correlation Between Theory and Experiment. - 27. Respiratory DynamicsComputer Simulation. Language: English