Systems Biology: The Challenge of Complexity

Book Overview

Dynamics and Complexity of Intercellular Networks.- Integrative Synaptic Mechanisms of the Neural Network.- The Molecular and Cellular Design of Networks in Motion.- Bacterial Complexity: More Is Different on All Levels.- How Animals Get Their Skin Patterns: Fish Pigment Pattern as a Live Turing Wave.- Characterization and Application of Natural Light-Sensitive Proteins.- Systems Biology of Mammalian Circadian Clocks.- Toward Understanding How the Immune System Establishes a Diverse Yet Self-Tolerant T-Cell Repertoire: Stepwise Roles of Thymic Microenvironments.- The Mechanisms of Motor Programming for Learned Vocalization in Songbirds.- Dynamic Model of the Basal Ganglia Functions and Movement Disorders.- Integrative Mechanism of Intracellular Information Networks.- A Posttranslational Chemical Circadian Oscillator in Cyanobacteria.- The Apoptotic Signaling Network Dynamically Interprets the Outputs of Individual Signaling Pathways in an Early Analog and Late Digital Manner.- Specific Features of Transient Ras and Sustained Rap1 Activation.- Control and Alteration of Protein Traffic in the Cell.- Plant Functional Genomics Based on Integration of Metabolomics and Transcriptomics: Toward Plant Systems Biology.- A Possible Role of Homeostasis Between Monomeric and Filamentous Actin in Filament Nucleation Revealed by Pharmacokinetic Modeling.- Molecules, Networks, and Memory.- Systems Biology Meets Single-Cell Physiology: Role of a Positive-Feedback Signal Transduction Network in Cerebellar Long-Term Synaptic Depression.- Computational Models of Cerebellar Long-Term Memory.- Biogenesis and Function Mechanisms of Micro-RNAs and Their Role as Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressors.- Dysfunction of Information Networks and Related Diseases.- The Pathogenetic Significance of Deregulated Transcription Factors in Hematological Malignancies.- Ultradian Oscillation Networks in Somite Segmentation and Other Biological Events.- The Cellular Basis of Dictyostelium Morphogenesis.- Metabolic Information Highway: Interorgan Metabolic Communication Via the Autonomic Nervous System.- Involvement of the CCR4-NOT Deadenylase Complex in the Control of Cell Growth.- Reconstruction of Nuclear Reprogramming by Defined Factors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4431998586
• ISBN13: 9784431998587
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"