Integrative Physiology in the Proteomics and Post-Genomics Age

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Walz, Wolfgang (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.

The advent of molecular techniques has shifted the focus of physiology from its traditional role as an integrative science concerned with the study of regulatory mechanisms leading to adaptation and homeostasis, to a field preoccupied with the problems and challenges inherent in those techniques. In...

Table of Contents:

• From Functional Linkage to Integrative Physiology
• Functional Genomics
• Electrolytes and Acid-Base Physiology
• Circulation and Fluid Volume Control
• Neuroendocrine Networks
• Physiology and Behavior
• Neural Circuits and Behavior
• Physiological Determinants of Consciousness
• Physical Activity
• Biochemical Adaptation to Extreme Environments
• Repair and Defense Systems at the Epithelial Surface in the Lung
• The Zebrafish As an Integrative Physiology Model
• Curriculum Design for Integrative Physiology.