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Molecular Theory of the Living Cell - Sungchul Ji

Molecular Theory of the Living Cell

Concepts, Molecular Mechanisms, and Biomedical Applications

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Buch | Softcover
748 Seiten
2016 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2012
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4939-3937-4 (ISBN)
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The book presents the first comprehensive molecular theory of the living cell ever published since the cell doctrine was formulated in 1838-1839. It introduces into cell biology over thirty key concepts, principles and laws imported from physics, chemistry, computer science, linguistics, semiotics and philosophy. The author formulates physically, chemically and enzymologically realistic molecular mechanisms to account for basic living processes such as ligand-receptor interactions, enzymic catalysis, force-generating mechanisms in molecular motors, chromatin remodelling, and signal transduction. Possible solutions to basic and practical problems facing contemporary biology and biomedical sciences have been suggested, including pharmacotherapeutics and personalized medicine.

After two years of pre-engineering training at the College of Engineering, Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea, the author obtained a scholarship in 1962 to study at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, receiving a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and mathematics in 1965. The author received a Ph.D. degree in physical organic chemistry from the State University of New York at Albany in 1970. Between 1970 and 74, he was a postdoctoral fellow and a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, studying the molecular mechanisms of oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria. The concept of the conformon that plays a key role in the theory of the living cell described in the book was first formulated while the author was carrying out bio-theoretical research in Madison. He then spent 2 years at the Johnson Research Foundation at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the space-dependent NADH fluorescence signals from rat liver and brains as a function of metabolic and circulatory perturbations. Based on the results of these experiments, the author was invited to join a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Systems Physiology, Dortmund, West Germany, as a visiting scientist, between 1976 and 1979, returning to the US in 1979 as a Research Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC. The author spent 3 years in Chapel Hill, elucidating the mechanisms of alcohol-induced liver injury using rat models. Since 1982, the author has been teaching and carrying out theoretical and experimental research in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, where the author formulated the Bhopalator model of the cell in 1983 and has been developing and applying it to pharmacology and toxicology ever since.

Part I Principles, Laws, and Concepts.- Physics.- Chemistry.- Biology.- Engineering.- Linguistics, Semiotics, and Philosophy.- Part II Theories, Molecular Mechanisms, and Models.- Molecular Mechanisms of Enzymic Catalysis.- The Conformon.- Intracellular Dissipative Structures (IDSs).- The Living Cell.- Part III Applications: From Molecules to Mind and Evolution.- Subcellular Systems.- Whole Cells.- Mechanisms of the Origin of Life.- Principles and Mechanisms of Biological Evolution.- Multicellular Systems.- What Is Life?- Why Is the Cell So Complex?- Ribonoscopy and Personalized Medicine.- Ribonoscopy and ‘Theragnostics’.- Application of the Knowledge Uncertainty Principle to Biomedical Sciences.- Conclusions.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 129 Illustrations, color; 108 Illustrations, black and white; XXI, 748 p. 237 illus., 129 illus. in color.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Biochemie
Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Angewandte Physik
ISBN-10 1-4939-3937-8 / 1493939378
ISBN-13 978-1-4939-3937-4 / 9781493939374
Zustand Neuware
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