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Periodic Diseases, Physiological Rhythms and Feedback Control—A Hypothesis
Author(s) -
Morley Alec
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
australasian annals of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0571-9283
DOI - 10.1111/imj.1970.19.3.244
Subject(s) - rhythm , control (management) , feedback control , neuroscience , chronobiology , computer science , medicine , biology , artificial intelligence , control engineering , engineering
Summary Consideration of some general features of controlled biological systems and examination of a particular system, granulo‐poiesis, suggest that feedback control may be responsible for many physiological rhythms and for the periodic features observed in a number of diseases.