Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation by Research Professor of Physiology and Biophysics Jay Schulkin, Jay Schulkin
Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation

Research Professor of Physiology and Biophysics Jay Schulkin, Jay Schulkin

Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation

Research Professor of Physiology and Biophysics Jay Schulkin, Jay Schulkin

384 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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The concept of homeostasis, the maintenance of the internal physiological environment of an organism within tolerable limits, is well established in medicine and physiology. In contrast, allostasis is a relatively new idea of 'viability through ch...

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