Log-normal distribution of physiological parameters and the coherence of biological systems.
The well-known fact that biological parameters, randomly selected, are distributed according to log-normal frequency curves instead of normal ones, has been traced back to a 'multiplicative Gestaltungs-principle of nature'. A further analysis shows that the basis of this principle can be assigned to the optimization of connections in a network of circuit elements, or, even more profoundly, to the formation of coherent states in living systems. The diagnosis of patients based on physiological frequency distributions provides a new powerful tool of understanding sickness in terms of deviations from a basic regulation principle.
Department and Institute of Biology, Hangzhou University, China.
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D000818:Animals; D016010:Binomial Distribution; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008954:Models, Biological; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D016011:Normal Distribution; D010827:Physiology; D011336:Probability