Publications by authors named "Alexander E Ermolenko"

Medical science based solely on the postulates of the cellular theory does not describe the structure and functions of biological organisms in full or meet the needs of modern medicine. Biological organisms, man included, can be regarded as biocrystalloids that are composites of crystals and paracrystalline media at the level of the whole organism and individual cells alike. The core component of biocrystalloids is represented by extracellular components of the connective tissue.

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The paper contains a description of basic regularities in the manifestation of symmetry of human structural organization and its ontogenetic and phylogenetic development. A concept of macrobiocrystalloid with inherent complex symmetry is proposed for the description of the human organism in its integrity. The symmetry can be characterized as two-plane radial (quadrilateral), where the planar symmetry is predominant while the layout of organs of radial symmetry is subordinated to it.

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Crystallographic analysis of biological and non-biological minerals does not reveal any significant differences between the two, which is indicative of common crystallization processes. It can be supposed that the human organism is a biocrystalloid in a sense that it is regarded both at the level of the whole organism and individual cells as a composite entity consisting of a crystal-like structure and pericrystalline medium. A similarity can be found between the growing layer of a crystal in the crystal-forming medium and a cell structure with liquid washing it.

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