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Biological Rhythms :. From Clocks to Chaos. Henri Poincaré started it all. Norbert Wiener & Cybernetics. Late 1975. ****************************************************. Outline. Homeostasis -- in many forms Biological oscillators
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Biological Rhythms : From Clocks to Chaos
Late 1975 ****************************************************
Outline • Homeostasis -- in many forms • Biological oscillators • Starting and stopping oscillators (Bifurcations in physiological dynamics) • Forcing oscillators: Single vs. Periodic • Conclusions
Outline • Homeostasis in all of its forms • Biological oscillators • Starting and stopping oscillators (Bifurcations in physiological dynamics) • Forcing oscillators: Single vs. Periodic
Outline • Homeostasis in all of its forms • Biological oscillators • Starting and stopping oscillators (Bifurcations in physiological dynamics) • Forcing oscillators: Single vs. Periodic
Mutual Inhibition in the LobsterCells 1 & 2 both active but they inhibit each other
Outline • Homeostasis in all of its forms • Biological oscillators • Starting and stopping oscillators (Bifurcations in physiological dynamics) • Forcing oscillators: Single vs. Periodic
Electrical Electrical Mechanical Mechanical Gut: Tapping in to an Oscillator
Soft Excitation(Supercritical Hopf Bifurcation) Cardiac Cell Model (McAllister, Noble, Tsien)
Uterine pressure waves in dysmenorrhea More Soft Excitation Lung volume Phrenic activity
Fictive swimming Arterial occlusion Still More Soft Excitation
Squid activity Hard Excitation(Subcritical Hopf Bifurcation)
Outline • Homeostasis in all of its forms • Biological oscillators • Starting and stopping oscillators (Bifurcations in physiological dynamics) • Forcing oscillators: Single vs. Periodic
Single Pulse Perturbation--Squid Annihilation of action potentials Annihilation of action potentials with residual signs of limit cycles
Control 3:1 2:1 2:1 3:2 1:1 2:2 2:3 3:2 (walking) 3:2 (running) “Chaos” Periodic Perturbation/Forcing
Conclusions Homeostasis can be like a (mathematical) steady state Varieties of homeostasis: steady, oscillating, ??chaotic?? Types of bifurcations: Soft and Hard Direct analogies between behaviour and mathematical properties Understanding normal biological properties ↔ understand disease Every example has been studied mathematically