Temporal Aspects of Therapeutics

ISBN-13: 9781468428490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 214 str.

J. Urquhart

Opis

Such knowledge deals with static concepts, whereas the biosystems we treat extend in the dimensions of time as well as in those of space. Even when "resting", a biosystem manifests a dynamic stability, and sustains numerous processes whose successive states follow trajectories in time.

Spis treści

Section I — Temporal Organization in Biosystems.- The Biological Time Scale.- Temporal and Hierarchical Organization in Biosystems.- Time and Timelessness in Biological Clocks.- Section II — Temporal Aspects of Subcellular Synthesis.- Sequential Assembly of Virus Particles.- Temporal Aspects of Macromolecular Synthesis in Eukaryotic Cells.- Section III — Temporal Aspects of Organ System Function.- Hormonal Control of the Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation in the Rhesus Monkey.- Section IV — Temporal Patterns and Therapeutics.- Pharmacokinetic Aspects of Controlled Drug Delivery Systems.- Cell Proliferation Characteristics and Cancer Chemotherapy.- Chronopharmacology in the Treatment of Hypertension with Diuretics.- Testosterone Polydimethylsiloxane Implants and Contraception in Male Rabbits.- Progress towards an Implantable Glucose Sensor and an Artificial Beta Cell.- Epilogue.