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Why integration?

The recent growth of the systems approach to biology provides a better conceptual framework within which to interpret holistic approaches to medicine. The reason is that systems biology respects the way in which the whole constrains the parts to behave in ways that are different from what they would...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Noble, Denis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5481677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28664040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2012.09.002
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Sumario:The recent growth of the systems approach to biology provides a better conceptual framework within which to interpret holistic approaches to medicine. The reason is that systems biology respects the way in which the whole constrains the parts to behave in ways that are different from what they would do in isolation. Holistic treatments depend on the same insight and can therefore be successful in practice where reductionist approaches would fail.