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Evaluation of Cerebral Blood Flow Autoregulation in the Rat Using Laser Doppler Flowmetry
Published on: January 19, 2020
[Autoregulative processes and structural principle of functional selective mobilization]
Abstract:
Autoregulative systems are being formed through dynamical changeability of structural components. Initial structural organization determinates possible variants of regulative connections with different probabilities resulting in a more successful formation of one system and retarding in the appearance of another one. It emphasized the domination of structural principle of functional selective mobilization during the creation of physiological, pathological and ambivalent systems (having, accordingly, adaptive, disadaptive and ambivalent significance). That's why result of system activity has not a dominant role in the process of system formation (the result, if it has adaptive significance, only promotes the consolidation of previously formed regulative connections).
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