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Perinatal nicotine exposure induces asthma in second generation offspring by Rehan, Virender K, Liu, Jie, Naeem, Erum, Tian, Jia, Sakurai, Reiko, Kwong, Kenny, Akbari, Omid, Torday, John S

“…By altering specific developmental signaling pathways that are necessary for fetal lung development, perinatal nicotine exposure affects lung growth and…”
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Homeostasis as the Mechanism of Evolution by Torday, John S

“…Homeostasis is conventionally thought of merely as a synchronic (same time) servo-mechanism that maintains the status quo for organismal physiology. However,…”
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Prevention of perinatal nicotine-induced bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell myofibroblast differentiation by augmenting the lipofibroblast phenotype by Sakurai, Reiko, Liu, Jie, Wang, Ying, Torday, John S, Rehan, Virender K

“…Perinatal nicotine exposure drives the differentiation of alveolar lipofibroblasts (LIFs), which are critical for lung injury repair, to myofibroblasts (MYFs),…”
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Thirdhand smoke: a new dimension to the effects of cigarette smoke on the developing lung by Rehan, Virender K, Sakurai, Reiko, Torday, John S

“…The underlying mechanisms and effector molecules involved in mediating in utero smoke exposure-induced effects on the developing lung are only beginning to be…”
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The Cell as the First Niche Construction by Torday, John S

“…Niche construction nominally describes how organisms can form their own environments, increasing their capacity to adapt to their surroundings. It is…”
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PPARγ Signaling Mediates the Evolution, Development, Homeostasis, and Repair of the Lung by Rehan, Virender K., Torday, John S.

“…Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions mediated by soluble growth factors determine the evolution of vertebrate lung physiology, including development,…”
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Consciousness, embodied Quantum Entanglement by Torday, John S.

“…We have systematically misconstrued the nature of consciousness by overlooking our own physiology as that awareness. The following is a way to rectify this…”
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Phenotype as Agent for Epigenetic Inheritance by Torday, John S, Miller, William B

“…The conventional understanding of phenotype is as a derivative of descent with modification through Darwinian random mutation and natural selection. Recent…”
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Symbiogenesis redicts the monism of the cosmos by Torday, John S.

“…Symbiogenesis has been systematically exploited to understand consciousness as the aggregate of our physiology. The Symbiogenic mechanism for assimilation of…”
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Life Is Simple-Biologic Complexity Is an Epiphenomenon by Torday, John S

“…Life originated from unicellular organisms by circumventing the Second Law of Thermodynamics using the First Principles of Physiology, namely negentropy,…”
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The quantum cell by Torday, John S.

“…There is a consensus that we are conscious of something greater than ourselves, as if we are derived from some other primordial set of principles. Classical or…”
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The synchronic, diachronic cell as the holism of consciousness by Torday, John S.

“…The cell is both synchronic and diachronic, based on ontogeny and phylogeny, respectively. As experimental evidence for this holism, absent gravitational…”
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Heterochrony as Diachronically Modified Cell-Cell Interactions by Torday, John S

“…Heterochrony is an enabling concept in evolution theory that metaphorically captures the mechanism of biologic change due to mechanisms of growth and…”
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The holism of evolution as consciousness by Torday, John S.

“…Quantum Entanglement has been hypothesized to mediate non-local consciousness, underlying which, empirically, is the force of gravity. Upon further reflection,…”
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Life is a mobius strip by Torday, John S.

“…If you cut a mobius strip in half, the edges form a Trefoil Knot, which can be untied to form a circle, proving it's a true mathematical knot. The cell is a…”
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Reappraising the exteriorization of the mammalian testes through evolutionary physiology by Miller, Jr, William B., Torday, John S.

“…A number of theories have been proposed to explain the exteriorization of the testicles in most mammalian species. None of these provide a consistent account…”
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The holism of cosmology and consciousness by Torday, John S.

“…The greatest unsolved mystery of all is what consciousness is. Torday and Miller have hypothesized that consciousness is the homologous ‘equivalent’ of our…”
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The Unicellular State as a Point Source in a Quantum Biological System by Torday, John S, Miller, William B

“…A point source is the central and most important point or place for any group of cohering phenomena. Evolutionary development presumes that biological…”
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Effects of Smoking on the Developing Lung: Insights from a Biologic Model for Lung Development, Homeostasis, and Repair by Rehan, Virender K, Asotra, Kamlesh, Torday, John S

“…There is extensive epidemiologic and experimental evidence from both animal and human studies that demonstrates detrimental long-term pulmonary outcomes in the…”
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Pleiotropy as the Mechanism for Evolving Novelty: Same Signal, Different Result by Torday, John S

“…In contrast to the probabilistic way of thinking about pleiotropy as the random expression of a single gene that generates two or more distinct phenotypic…”
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