Correctly identifying responses is critical for understanding homeostatic and allostatic regulation.
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.
Department of Oral Health Sciences; University of Washington; Seattle, WA USA; Department of Orthodontics; University of Washington; Seattle, WA USA; Department of Pediatric Dentistry; University of Washington; Seattle, WA USA.
Douglas S
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Ramsay
Department of Oral Health Sciences; University of Washington ; Seattle, WA USA.
Karl J
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Kaiyala
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience; University of Cincinnati Medical Center ; Cincinnati, OH USA.
Stephen C
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Woods
addiction; allostasis; homeostasis; nitrous oxide; obesity; regulation; sign reversal; thermoregulation