title: Hydration forces involved in cellular interactions.
abstract: Cellular physical interactions are determinant in many and various biological processes: aggregation, adhesion, segregation, contact inhibition, fusion, etc. A real advance concerning the understanding of cellular interactions from a physical point of view has been performed of late, but a great many problems still remain to be clarified. Thus, DLVO theory extrapolated to cell-cell interactions, is unable to describe cellular interactions at very short distances of separation, where other forces play an important role. A sketch of the original form of DLVO theory, its criticism along with the nature and mechanism of the short range repulsive forces (hydration forces) are presented and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania.
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Popescu
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gheorghe
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002450:Cell Communication / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007477:Ions; D008433:Mathematics; D014867:Water / Q000493:pharmacokinetics
chemical_list: D007477:Ions; D014867:Water