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Systems medicine : physiological circuits and the dynamics of disease / Uri Alon.
Van Pelt Library QH324.2 .A467 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alon, Uri, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Chapman & Hall/CRC computational biology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biological systems--Mathematical models.
- Biological systems.
- Human physiology--Mathematical models.
- Human physiology.
- Systems biology.
- Biological Phenomena.
- Physiological Phenomena.
- Systems Biology.
- Models, Theoretical.
- Medical Informatics Computing.
- mathematical models.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biological Phenomena.
- Physiological Phenomena.
- Systems Biology.
- Models, Theoretical.
- Medical Informatics Computing.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Systems Medicine: Physiological Circuits and the Dynamics of Disease introduces the topic of physiological circuits, in which cells and organs communicate with each other. Rather than circuits inside a cell, it discusses circuits between cells. This is the level relevant to the most common and deadly diseases that currently plague humanity. The goal is to start from basic principles or 'laws' and derive why physiology is built the way it is, and why certain diseases happen while others don't. By the end of the book, you will be able to use simple but powerful mathematical models to describe physiological circuits. The models are powerful because they turn details into useful understanding and new ways to think about treating diseases. We will understand the fundamental causes of some of the most mysterious diseases: diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and age-related diseases such as lung fibrosis and cancer. The trajectory begins with basic principles. From these are derived circuits and their fragility to disease. The book explores (i) hormone circuits, (ii) immune circuits, and (iii) aging and age-related disease, and culminates in a periodic table of diseases. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The insulin-glucose circuit
- Dynamical compensation, mutant resistance, and type-2 diabetes
- The stress hormone axis as a two-gland oscillator
- Autoimmune diseases as a fragility of mutant surveillance
- Inflammation and fibrosis as a bistable system
- Basic facts of aging
- Aging and saturated repair
- Age-related diseases
- Periodic table of diseases
- Epilogue: Simplicity in systems medicine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Mary M. Kaufman Memorial Fund for Neuro-Science & Biomedical Engineering Source.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Alon, Uri, 1969- Systems medicine
- ISBN:
- 9781032412283
- 1032412283
- 9781032411859
- 1032411856
- OCLC:
- 1388495816
- Publisher Number:
- 99996329811
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