Control Strategies in Physiological Systems

Overview

Journal FASEB J

Specialties Biology
Physiology

Date 1988 Feb 1

PMID 3277888

Citations 28

Authors

J C Houk

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Abstract

In this paper, written for a general audience, I review and contrast various strategies that the body uses to control homeostasis and movement. Messages, signals, communication channels, and control systems are dealt with from both a cellular and an integrative perspective. The major global control strategies are feedback, feedforward, and adaptive control, and examples of each are presented to highlight advantageous and disadvantageous features. Many physiological systems use these three strategies in combination.

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