Dynamical compensation

Slow tissue adaptation can compensate for parameter changes in physiological models.

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Weizmann Institute of Science

Uri Alon Lab

Uri Alon

Research seeking simple quantitative design principles that explain biological circuits, physiology, disease, tissue dynamics, and aging.

Biological design principles Bistability Diabetes Dynamical compensation Dynamical systems

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Uri Alon

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Core background

Design Principles of Life, Disease, and Aging

Hormone circuits: robustness, diabetes, and slow physiological memory

Explain dynamical compensation in glucose-insulin models.

Supports: Dynamical compensation

Important papers

Mol. Syst. Biol · 2016