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Organic Crosstalk: a New Perspective in Medicine

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Organic crosstalk or intercommunication among different organs is an interesting medical concept based on the biosemiotic perspective which considers the organism as a process maintained by the vital information flow between structural plane and biosemiotic plane, both with their different layers of biological complexity. From this point of view the organ is not merely the structure which produces crosstalk but just as much its product. The crosstalk perspective seeks two main goals: to investigate the characteristic serum biosemiotic patterns of pathogenic organic crosstalk in order to achieve early diseases diagnosis, and to learn how to correct it. These achievements could allow physicians to evolve from a medical practice that focuses on misbiosemiotic effects, diagnosing and treating damaged organs, to a medical practice that focuses on misbiosemiotic processes, in this way diagnosing and treating pathogenic organ crosstalk before it culminates in organ damage.

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  1. Physiology Department, Instituto Universitario del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Carlos G. Musso, Victoria P. Musso-Enz & Olivia Maria Capalbo

  2. Facultad de Ciencias de La Salud, Universidad Simón Bolivar, Barranquilla, Colombia

    Carlos G. Musso

  3. Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Guido M. Musso-Enz

  4. Asociación de Estudios Humanisticos, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Sebastian Porrini

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Musso, C.G., Musso-Enz, V.P., Musso-Enz, G.M. et al. Organic Crosstalk: a New Perspective in Medicine. Biosemiotics 14, 829–837 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-021-09459-3

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