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Abstract
Limits to the usefulness of homeostasis as a guiding physiological principle are revealed by new mechanisms derived from study of nonlinear systems that generate a type of variability called chaos. Loss of complex physiological variability may occur in certain pathological conditions including heart rate dynamics before sudden death and with aging.Entities:
Keywords: NASA Discipline Cardiopulmonary; NASA Discipline Number 14-10; NASA Program Space Physiology and Countermeasures; Non-NASA Center
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Year: 1991 PMID: 11537649 DOI: 10.1152/physiologyonline.1991.6.2.87
Source DB: PubMed Journal: News Physiol Sci ISSN: 0886-1714