Thyrotropic feedback control: Evidence for an additional ultrashort feedback loop from fractal analysis

Cybernetics and Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 315-331

  Dietrich, J W ^a   Tesche, A ^b   Pickardt, C R ^b   Mitzdorf, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BLOOD; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FRACTALS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HORMONES; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL ENCODING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CONTROL MECHANISM; ENDOCRINE REGULATION SYSTEMS; PITUITARY GLANDS; STOCHASTIC STIMULATION;

FEEDBACK CONTROL;

EID: 3042544379     PISSN: 01969722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01969720490443354     Document Type: Article

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