Living SystemsOffering a detailed analysis of each of the major aspects and characteristics encountered at all seven levels, Living Systems identifies multiple variables of each of 9 matter-energy and information-processing subsystems, the normal and pathological states of these variables, and practical indicators for measuring changes in them. It also specifies cross-level formal identities among the levels and describes the artifacts, machines, or technologies at each level. |
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Page 249
... Muscle fibers . Skeletal muscle fibers differ from visceral and cardiac muscle cells in their input trans- ducers as well as in other details of their structures . Motor neurons synapse with them at a highly differ- entiated neuromyal ...
... Muscle fibers . Skeletal muscle fibers differ from visceral and cardiac muscle cells in their input trans- ducers as well as in other details of their structures . Motor neurons synapse with them at a highly differ- entiated neuromyal ...
Page 318
... muscle is sup- plied by the autonomic division of the nervous system , but in a few places the skeletal nervous system provides part or all of the innervation . There are also reticular fibers forming a kind of sheath around each muscle ...
... muscle is sup- plied by the autonomic division of the nervous system , but in a few places the skeletal nervous system provides part or all of the innervation . There are also reticular fibers forming a kind of sheath around each muscle ...
Page 374
... muscular tissue ( see page 318 ) differs among other animal species also . The organization of the membranous structures within the fibers of wing muscles of certain flying insects , for example , differs from that of other sorts of muscle ...
... muscular tissue ( see page 318 ) differs among other animal species also . The organization of the membranous structures within the fibers of wing muscles of certain flying insects , for example , differs from that of other sorts of muscle ...
Contents
Tables of the Critical Subsystems | xi |
Preface to the First Edition | xxvii |
Outline of Chapters 3 4 and 6 through 12 | xxxviii |
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