BIOL 1080- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Lecture 1: the 6 biological concepts of health. The seven dimensions of health: spiritual, physical, mental, social, emotional, environmental and occupational. The overall objective of the course is to consider the concepts of health, disease and aging in the adult human from a systems biology perspective. Systems biology: the systematic study of complex interactions in biological systems wikipedia. The main goal of this system is to better understand the entirety of the processes that happen in a biological system ex. the opposite to the usual reductionist paradigm where organizational levels tend to be isolated. Isolated models (molecules, cells, organs or tissue, ect. ) Leptin: antiobesity hormone that stimulates fat oxidation in a muscle. First, consider that: the isolated test is done in the absence of 100"s of other hormones that could antagonize, or even amplify leptin"s effect leptin has numerous effects in other tissues, including the brain. Doesn"t take into account other organs, bad on cost efficiency.
