title: Morphogenetic fields: outlining the alternatives and enlarging the context.
abstract: Several alternative properties which we define as deterministic or field ones are formulated and analyzed in their relations to the realms of morphogenesis and biophoton emission. In spite of all the differences between these two groups of events both of them share the properties of non-additivity, delocalization, self-focusing and several others which we relate to the field phenomena. To a large extent, the field properties of the biological systems are associated with a set of oscillations of different time periods. We suggest that even such deterministic events as, for example, a ligand-receptor coupling are acting, within an activated cell, as the switches and/or modulators of its field properties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Embryology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow.
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Beloussov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004626:Embryology; D005399:Fishes / Q000196:embryology; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D009024:Morphogenesis; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D017785:Photons; D012106:Research; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013816:Thermodynamics; D013997:Time Factors