Uri Alon Lab
Uri AlonResearch seeking simple quantitative design principles that explain biological circuits, physiology, disease, tissue dynamics, and aging.
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Hormone regulation
Fast hormone signaling and slow gland-mass adaptation shape regulation and recovery.
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Design Principles of Life, Disease, and Aging
Hormone circuits: robustness, diabetes, and slow physiological memoryExplain dynamical compensation in glucose-insulin models.
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Mol. Syst. Biol · 2016
Dynamical compensation in physiological circuits
O. Karin, A. Swisa, B. Glaser, Y. Dor & U. Alon
Why this matters: Shows how slow adaptation can preserve dynamic regulation in physiological models.
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20167216