Material transport by diffusion is present in nature, as well as in living organisms as a vital process. The basic and generally used is a phenomenologically established law, named Fick’s law, It states that the material flux is proportional to the concentration gradient and that the material flows from the higher to lower concentration. Howe...

By Miloš Kojić, Miljan Milošević, Alessandro Grattoni, Mauro Ferrari

Heart wall tissue plays a crucial role in living organisms by generating the mechanical force for blood flow. This tissue has a complex internal structure comprised mostly of muscle cells, in which biochemical energy is transformed into mechanical active stress under rhythmical electrical excitation. The overall heart functioning depends, among oth...

By Miloš Kojić, Miljan Milošević, Bogdan Milićević, Vlada Geroski, Vlada Simić, D. Trifunović, G. Stanković, Nenad Filipović