On the Dynamic Equilibrium in Homeostasis

Gabriella Hegyi, Gyula Vincze, Andras Szasz

Department of Biotechnics, St. Istvan University, Godollo, Hungary.
Department of Complementary Medicine, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.

DOI: 10.4236/ojbiphy.2012.23009                

Abstract

We studied the homeostatic equilibrium of the healthy organism. The homeostasis is controlled by oppositely effective physiologic feedback signal-pairs in various time-scales. We show the entropy of every signal in this state is identical and constant: SE = 1.8. The controlling physiological signals fluctuate around their average values. The fluctuation is time-fractal, (pink-noise), which characterizes the homeostasis. The aging is the degradation of the competing pairs of signals, decreasing the complexity of the organism. This way, the color of the noise gradually changes to brown. A special scaling process occurs during the aging: the exponent of the frequency dependence of the power density function grows in this process from 1 to 2, but the homeostasis of the system is unchanged.

Keywords

Homeostasis; Entropy; Bioscaling; Aging; Competing Feedback-Signals; Multiscaling Entropy; MSE

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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