Uri Alon

Systems Medicine (eBook, PDF)

Physiological Circuits and the Dynamics of Disease

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Systems Medicine introduces the topic of physiological circuits, in which cells and organs communicate. It is written in a very accessible style, suitable for anyone with a background in biology, engineering, physics, math, engineering, computer science, chemistry or other subjects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000960679
• Artikelnr.: 69137656

Autorenporträt

Uri Alon is the Abisch-Frenkel Professor of Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. https://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/UriAlon/homepage

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I Hormone Circuits. Chapter 1 The Insulin-Glucose
Circuit. Chapter 2 Dynamical Compensation, Mutant Resistance, and Type-2
Diabetes. Chapter 2.5 Three Laws of Physiology. Chapter 3 The Stress
Hormone Axis as a Two-Gland Oscillator. Chapter 3.5 The Thyroid and Its
Discontents. Part II Immune Circuits. Chapter 4 Autoimmune Diseases as a
Fragility of Mutant Surveillance. Chapter 5 Inflammation and Fibrosis as a
Bistable System. Chapter 6 Basic Facts of Aging. Chapter 7 Aging and
Saturated Repair. Chapter 8 Age-Related Diseases. Chapter 9 Periodic Table
of Diseases. EPILOGUE: SIMPLICITY IN SYSTEMS MEDICINE. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
INDEX.