I. General Considerations.- II. Spatial Diffusion.- III. Ligand Current into a Single Receptor.- IV. Theory of One-Stage Chemoreception.- V. Ligand Capture by a System of Many Cells.- VI. Diffusion and Flow in the Cell Membrane.- VII. Excluded Volume Effects in the Diffusion of Membrane Proteins.- VIII. Theory of Two-Stage Chemoreception.- IX. Chemoreception by a Swimming Cell.
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Is it not sheer foolishness to try to apply the methods of theoretical physics to biological structures? Most of my colleagues in theoretical physics feel one should not waste one's time and stick to "the good old hydrogen atom", but some of them feel one should try anyhow.