Correctly identifying responses is critical for understanding homeostatic and allostatic regulation

Temperature (Austin). 2014 Dec 31;1(3):157-9. doi: 10.4161/23328940.2014.982048. eCollection 2014 Oct-Dec.

Abstract

Homeostasis stabilizes critical biological variables within appropriate limits via corrective regulatory effector responses that adequately counter disturbing effects. Identifying individual effects and responses, and distinguishing their individual influences on a regulated state, is challenging. Studying effector responses can reveal regulatory phenomena that depart from homeostasis into the realm of allostasis.

Keywords: addiction; allostasis; homeostasis; nitrous oxide; obesity; regulation; sign reversal; thermoregulation.

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