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Ultradian Rhythms from Molecules to Mind
A New Vision of Life
ISBN/EAN: 9789048178520
Umbreit-Nr.: 1831024
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: x, 450 S.
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kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 19.10.2010
Auflage: 1/2008
- Zusatztext
- 5. 1. 1 Biological Rhythms and Clocks From an evolutionary perspective, the adaptation of an organism's behavior to its environment has depended on one of life's fundamental traits: biological rhythm generation. In virtually all light-sensitive organisms from cyanobacteria to humans, biological clocks adapt cyclic physiology to geophysical time with time-keeping properties in the circadian (24 h), ultradian (24 h) domains (Edmunds, 1988; Lloyd, 1998; Lloyd et al., 2001; Lloyd and Murray, 2006; Lloyd, 2007; Pittendrigh, 1993; Sweeney and Hastings, 1960) By definition, all rhythms exhibit regular periodicities since they constitute a mechanism of timing. Timing exerted by oscillatory mechanisms are found throughout the biological world and their periods span a wide range from milliseconds, as in the action potential of n- rons and the myocytes, to the slow evolutionary changes that require thousands of generations. In this context, to understand the synchronization of a population of coupled oscillators is an important problem for the dynamics of physiology in living systems (Aon et al., 2007a, b; Kuramoto, 1984; Strogatz, 2003; Winfree, 1967). Circadian rhythms, the most intensively studied, are devoted to measuring daily 24 h cycles. A variety of physiological processes in a wide range of eukaryotic organisms display circadian rhythmicity which is characterized by the following major properties (Anderson et al., 1985; Edmunds, 1988): (i) stable, autonomous (self-sustaining) oscillations having a free-running period under constant envir- mental conditions of ca.
- Kurztext
- A new vision integrating the Biology of Mind and MoleculesA unique synthesis of the Arts, Sciences and CultureThe New Sciences of Phychoscocial Genomics integrating genes, mind and brainThe Biology Art, Beauty and TruthThe Integration of Mind, Genes, Consciousness and Behaviour
- Autorenportrait
- InhaltsangabeIntroduction: The Temporal organization of living systems from molecules to mind, D. Lloyd, E.L. Rossi, M.R. Roussel Part 1 The Molecular-Genetic-Cellular Level 1. The Ultradian Clock (period about 40 min) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, D. Lloyd, D.B. Murray, R.R. Klevecz, J. Wolf, H. Kuriyama; 2 ENOX proteins: copper hexahydrate-based ultradian oscillators of the cell's biological clock, D.J.Morré, D.M. Morré; 3. Self-organized intracellular ultradian rhythms provide direct cell-cell communication, V.Y. Brodsky, D. Lloyd; 4. Phosphorylation dynamics in mammalian cells, D.A. Gilbert, K.D. Hammond; 5. Is there a mitochondrial clock?, M.A. Aon, S. Cortassa, B. O'Rourke Part 2 Invertebrate Systems 6. Ultradian and circadian rhythms: experiments and models, B. Fuentes-Pardo, Carolina Barriga-Montoya, M.Lara Aparicio; 7. Ultradian lovesong rhythms in Drosophila, C.P. Kyriacou; 8. Mid-range ultradian rhythms in Drosophila and the circadian clock problem, H.B.Dowse; 9. Tidal rhythms, M.K. Chandrashekaran, V.K. Sharma Part 3 The Neuroendocrineal and Developmental Level 10. Pulsatile hormonal signalling secretion: mechanisms, significance and evaluation, J.D.Veldhuis; 11. Ultradian rhythms as the dynamic signature of life, F.E. Yates, L.B. Yates; 12. Central and peripheral circadian oscillators: how the brain talks to the liver, U. Schibler Part 4 Ultradian and Circadian Rhythms in Human Experience 13 Total sleep deprivation and cognitive performance: the case for multiple sources of variance, H. Babkoff, A. Goldstein, Z. Gil; 14. Ultradian Cognitive performance rhythms during sleep deprivation, C. LaJambe, F. Brown; 15. High Frequency EEG and Its Relationship to Cognitive Function, H. C. Sing; 16. Genes, sleep and dreams, S. Ribeiro; 17. A New Vision of Creative Experience: The Ultradian and Circadian Rhythms of Art, Beauty, and Truth, E. Rossi, K. Rossi; 18. Epilogue: A newvision of life, D. Lloyd, E. Rossi