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Modeling Procedures

  • María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces
  • Juan Carlos Martínez-García
  • José Dávila-Velderrain
  • Elisa Domínguez-Hüttinger
  • Mariana Esther Martínez-Sánchez
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Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series (AEMB, volume 1069)

Abstract

Being concerned by the understanding of the mechanism underlying chronic degenerative diseases, we presented in the previous chapter the medical systems biology conceptual framework that we present for that purpose in this volume. More specifically, we argued there the clear advantages offered by a state-space perspective when applied to the systems-level description of the biomolecular machinery that regulates complex degenerative diseases. We also discussed the importance of the dynamical interplay between the risk factors and the network of interdependencies that characterizes the biochemical, cellular, and tissue-level biomolecular reactions that underlie the physiological processes in health and disease. As we pointed out in the previous chapter, the understanding of this interplay (articulated around cellular phenotypic plasticity properties, regulated by specific kinds of gene regulatory networks) is necessary if prevention is chosen as the human-health improvement strategy (potentially involving the modulation of the patient’s lifestyle). In this chapter we provide the medical systems biology mathematical and computational modeling tools required for this task.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces
    • 1
  • Juan Carlos Martínez-García
    • 2
  • José Dávila-Velderrain
    • 3
  • Elisa Domínguez-Hüttinger
    • 4
  • Mariana Esther Martínez-Sánchez
    • 1
  1. 1.Ciudad Universitaria, UNAM, Instituto de EcologíaCiudad de MéxicoMexico
  2. 2.Departamento de Control AutomáticoCINVESTAVCiudad de MéxicoMexico
  3. 3.CSIL, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeUSA
  4. 4.Centro de Ciencias Matemáticas, UNAMMoreliaMéxico

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