Critical transitions in chronic disease: Transferring concepts from ecology to systems medicine

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 48-55

  Trefois, Christophe ^a   Antony, Paul MA ^a   Goncalves, Jorge ^a   Skupin, Alexander ^a,b   Balling, Rudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; EARLY WARNING; MICROBIOME; SYSTEM STATE; THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION;

ECOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY WARNING SIGNAL; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES;

EID: 84919932929     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.11.020     Document Type: Review

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