Cell-Cell Channels [recurso electrónico] / by Frantisek Baluska, Dieter Volkmann, Peter W. Barlow.

Cell-Cell Channels and Their Implications for Cell Theory -- Cell-Cell Channels and Their Implications for Cell Theory -- Prokaryotic Cells -- Mating Cell-Cell Channels in Conjugating Bacteria -- Ciliate Cells -- The Tetrahymena Conjugation Junction -- Algal Cells -- Cytoplasmic Bridges in Volvox and Its Relatives -- Fungal Cells -- Vegetative Hyphal Fusion in Filamentous Fungi -- Plant Cells -- Plasmodesmata: Cell-Cell Channels in Plants -- Sieve-Pore Plugging Mechanisms -- Actin and Myosin VIII in Plant Cell-Cell Channels -- Cell-Cell Communication in Wood -- TMV Movement Protein Targets Cell-Cell Channels in Plants and Prokaryotes -- Viral Movement Proteins Induce Tubule Formation in Plant and Insect Cells -- Cell-Cell Movements of Transcription Factors in Plants -- Animal Cells -- Gap Junctions -- Tunneling Nanotubes -- Cytoplasmic Bridges as Cell-Cell Channels of Germ Cells -- Fusome as a Cell-Cell Communication Channel of Drosophila Ovarian Cyst -- Cytonemes as Cell-Cell Channels in Human Blood Cells -- Paracellular Pores in Endothelial Barriers -- Channels across Endothelial Cells -- Molecular Transfers through Transient Lymphoid Cell-Cell Channels -- Cell-Cell Transport of Homeoproteins -- Virological Synapse for Cell-Cell Spread of Viruses -- Cell-Cell Fusion.

This book covers cell-cell channels at all levels of biological organization. The purpose of this book is to document that cells are not physically separated and fully autonomous units of biological life as stated by the currently valid Cell Theory. If not the cell then some lower level unit must fulfill this role. The book deals also with the identity of this elusive unit of biological life.