Molecular Basis of Resilience Adapting to a Changing Environment /

• Main Author: Iversen, Patrick L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Pharmacology.; Molecular biology.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Molecular Medicine.

This book illuminates mechanisms of resilience. Threats and defense systems lead to adaptive changes in gene expression. Environmental conditions may dampen adaptive responses at the level of RNA expression. The first seven chapters elaborate threats to human health. Human populations spontaneously...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Preface
• Social Entropy
• Virus among Us
• Non-linear Anomalies
• Bacterial Infectious Disease
• Cure 2000
• Chemicals in the Environment
• Immune Defense
• Metabolic Defense
• Analog Genetics
• Eteplirsen
• Regulating Resilience.