Living Tissue Self-Regulation as a Self-Organization Phenomenon

TL;DR

This paper explores how living tissues self-regulate through self-organization, developing a mathematical model of vascular network responses without central control, highlighting cooperative interactions in hierarchical biological systems.

Contribution

It introduces a mathematical theory describing vascular network self-regulation as a self-organization phenomenon in hierarchical biological systems.

Findings

Vascular networks respond to local effects through self-organized mechanisms.

Self-regulation occurs without a central governing system.

The model explains cooperative interactions in tissue self-regulation.

Abstract

Self-regulation of living tissue as an example of self-organization phenomena in hierarchical systems of biological, ecological, and social nature is under consideration. The characteristic feature of these systems is the absence of any governing center and, thereby, their self-regulation is based on a cooperative interaction of all the elements. The work develops a mathematical theory of a vascular network response to local effects on scales of individual units of peripheral circulation.