Description
| Product ID: | 9781032411859 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series |
| Title: | Systems Medicine |
| Subtitle: | Physiological Circuits and the Dynamics of Disease |
| Authors: | Author: Uri Alon |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Applied mathematics, Applied mathematics, Biophysics, Life sciences: general issues, Molecular biology, Information technology: general topics, Computer science, Biophysics, Life sciences: general issues, Molecular biology, Information technology: general issues, Computer science |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. Why do we get certain diseases, whereas other diseases do not exist? In this book, Alon, one of the founders of systems biology, builds a foundation for systems medicine. Starting from basic laws, the book derives why physiological circuits are built the way they are. The circuits have fragilities that explain specific diseases and offer new strategies to treat them. By the end, the reader will be able to use simple and powerful mathematical models to describe physiological circuits. The book explores, in three parts, hormone circuits, immune circuits, and aging and age-related disease. It culminates in a periodic table of diseases. Alon writes in a style accessible to a broad range of readers - undergraduates, graduates, or researchers from computational or biological backgrounds. The level of math is friendly and the math can even be bypassed altogether. For instructors and readers who want to go deeper, the book includes dozens of exercises that have been rigorously tested in the classroom |
| Imprint Name: | Chapman & Hall/CRC |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-12-15 |
