La química de la vida. Yodo y hormonas tiroideas en la evolución de la humanidad The Chemistry of Life. Iodine and Thyroidal Hormones in the Evolution of Mankind Carlos Valverde Rodríguez Is it possible that the peculiar chemical composition of human life has been forged in the glowing insides of the stars? What is the reason for iodine, the heaviest, most sparse element in the biosphere, to be the essential compound for the proper functioning of thyroidal hormones, which are responsible for neurogenesis? This book is a rigorous study that finds equilibrium between the atomic, the cultural and the ecological in order to answer these questions, using a light and anecdotic style, particularly thought for college students of every discipline. 57 UNAM Foreign Rights 2015 By the same author A Whirlwind of Looks towards the Thyroid Gland. Its history through art, myth and science Carlos Valverde Rodríguez with Alejandro Ortiz Bulle Goyri Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The relationship between selenium and T3 in selenium supplemented and nonsupplemented ewes and their lambs Abd Elghany-Hefnawy, Seham Y, Villalobos P, Valverde-RC, Tórtora PJ Vet Medicine International, November 2014 About the author Carlos M. Valverde Rodríguez is one of the main specialists in the physiological evolution of the thyroidal systems. With a career spanning over three decades, the Doctor in Experimental Endocrinology (University of Connecticut) has been an international lecturer and the author of more than a hundred articles in research. He was a member of the Nuclear Medicine Department and Thyroid Clinic of the Nutrition National Institute and of the Physiology Department in the Biomedical Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is currently a researcher for the Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Department of the Neurobiology Institute at the same University. Author’s Awards Member of the Mexican Science Academy. Member of the Mexican Physiological Sciences Society. Readership • Students and researchers of Medicine and Exact Sciences • Astrophysicists and Neurobiologists • Science essay readers 1st edition: unam, Mexico, 2011 Size: 6.65 in x 9 in Series: ISBN: 978-607-02-2265-8 MSRP $10.95 USD “The Chemistry of Life. Iodine and Thyroid Hormones in the Evolution of Mankind is a remarkable story that might seem unbelievable, whether it not be sustained, as it is in fact, on the rigorous analysis of the most recent advances of scientific knowledge … There is not an idea similar to the one developed by Valverde which is aimed to a general audience” Javier Flores • The author is one of the leading experts in the evolution of thyroidal systems in the international scientific community. • It is backed by the most advanced studies in astrophysics and neurobiology.
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