Title :
Calcium homeostasis: a feedback control point of view
Author :
El-Samad, H. ; Khammash, M. ; Goff, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA
Abstract :
In the biological sciences, the mathematical approach to studying feedback mechanisms has not been common despite the abundance of such mechanisms in those systems. We try to analyze the calcium homeostatic mechanism in this context. In addition to a general modeling of this mechanism, the paper also focuses on parturient paresis, a common disease associated with the onset of parturition in dairy cows, due to a large increased demand for calcium
Keywords :
biocontrol; bone; calcium; closed loop systems; feedback; nonlinear control systems; physiological models; state-space methods; calcium homeostasis; dairy cows; feedback control; feedback mechanisms; parturient paresis; Blood; Bones; Calcium; Cows; Dairy products; Diseases; Extracellular; Feedback control; Fluids and secretions; Plasmas;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5519-9
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2000.879108
