Molecular systems future implications

This book reviews some of the best-characterized chemotaxis systems, from bacteria to human eells. In so doing, the book demonstrates how basic chemotaxis is to life, how widespread it is, and how versatile its physiologieal funetions are. The book attempts to present the state of the art of a number of representative molecular mechanisms of chemotaxis, to indicate unanswered questions surrounding each mechanism, and to suggest future direetions for researeh. In some systems, the implications for health eonditions are diseussed. Thus, in the next chapter (Chapter 2), Joseph Lengeler surveys the systems and ph enomena in which chemotaxis appears to have a role. Some issues... 

Little is known about the molecular mechanisms and complexity converting psychosocial stress into cellular dysfunction in the brain, endocrine, and immune systems. How ordinary and sustained maladapted psychosocial stressors, chronic stress, and an unhealthy lifestyle activate and exert an influence on the biochemistry of the neuro-endocrine-immune axes with implications for future health or disease, is an upcoming innovative research field due to the new and emerging fields of proteomics, metabonomics, and biochip technologies. 

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