Inductive and Deductive Approaches to Acute Cell Injury.
Inductive and Deductive Approaches to Acute Cell Injury.
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急性细胞损伤的归纳和演绎方法。
DOI:
10.1155/2014/859341
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发表时间:
2014
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Huang,Zhi-Feng
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作者:
DeGracia,DonaldJ;TriAnggraini,Fika;Taha,DoaaTahaMetwally;Huang,Zhi-Feng
Many clinically relevant forms of acute injury, such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, and myocardial infarction, have resisted treatments to prevent cell death following injury. The clinical failures can be linked to the currently used inductive models based on biological specifics of the injury system. Here we contrast the application of inductive and deductive models of acute cell injury. Using brain ischemia as a case study, we discuss limitations in inductive inferences, including the inability to unambiguously assign cell death causality and the lack of a systematic quantitative framework. These limitations follow from an overemphasis on qualitative molecular pathways specific to the injured system. Our recently developed nonlinear dynamical theory of cell injury provides a generic, systematic approach to cell injury in which attractor states and system parameters are used to quantitatively characterize acute injury systems. The theoretical, empirical, and therapeutic implications of shifting to a deductive framework are discussed. We illustrate how a deductive mathematical framework offers tangible advantages over qualitative inductive models for the development of therapeutics of acutely injured biological systems.