What Is Evolutionary Medicine?

This book provides a brief introduction to the rapidly developing evolutionary medicine since the 21st century (that is, studying medicine from the perspectives of ecology and evolution, also known as theoretical medicine).

Introduction to Evolutionary Medicine

This book provides a brief introduction to the rapidly developing evolutionary medicine since the 21st century (that is, studying medicine from the perspectives of ecology and evolution, also known as theoretical medicine).

Author

Wu Kefu

ISBN

978-7-313-11811-0

Fixed price

$ 48.00

Publishing house

Shanghai Jiaotong University Press

date of publish

2014-10-08

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This book provides a brief introduction to the rapidly developing evolutionary medicine since the 21st century (that is, studying medicine from the perspectives of ecology and evolution, also known as theoretical medicine). The material basis and network principles of life are discussed systematically, and the recent understanding of the laws of microevolution is summarized. The role of evolutionary medicine in studying complex diseases and modern common diseases is introduced by taking inflammation, tumors, and modern common diseases as examples. Evolutionary medicine intersects with system medicine and network medicine. It inherits the latest achievements of natural science and technology science.

This book can be used as a guide for graduate and senior students

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 The Material Foundation of Life 12

The first section of the spatial characteristics of living matter-nanobiology / 12

Section 2 Biological Rhythm and Temporal Biology / 16

Section 3 Biological Significance of Temperature / 23

Chapter 2: The Network Foundation of Life 29

Section 1 Overview of Biological Networks / 29

Section 2 Complex Diseases and Network Medicine / 36

Section 3 Biological Significance of Self-Organizing Critical State (SOC) / 45

Section 4 Bistability in Biology / 48

Section 5 Invisible Networks in Cell and Molecular Biology / 51

Chapter 3 Nature and Law of Biological Evolution 58

Section 1 Exploration of the Origin of Life / 59

Evolution of Apoptosis Network / 70

Section 3 Evolution of Viruses and Prokaryotic Cells / 73

Discussion on the Law of Microevolution / 84

Chapter 4 Inflammation and Evolution 99

The first section of the biological basis of inflammation / 100

Section 2 Inflammation due to infection / 105

Section III Disease Tolerance / 114

Section 4 Inflammation Caused by Stress and Abnormal Function / 122

Section V Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases / 133

Chapter V Tumors-New Life in the Body 145

Section I Concepts, Hypotheses, and Theories of Tumors / 145

Factors Inducing Tumor Formation / 149

Section III Tumor Stem Cells and Clonal Evolution / 157

Section 4 Cellular Ecology of Tumors / 165

The fifth section of the cell ecology of tumor prevention / 168

Chapter 6: Biocapacity Basis of Complex Diseases 181

The first section of the mitochondrial biological capacity / 181

Section mtDNA mutation and adaptation and disease / 185

Section III Biocapacitive Regulation of Cell Physiological Function and Gene Expression / 189

Section 4 Mitochondrial Hereditary Diseases / 193

Section 5 Mitochondria and Aging / 199