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In this chapter I shall set out the strategies of comprehensive systems analysis of hormone action. The metabolic system will provide the biological test case. To analyze it I shall require certain principles from engineering science, physics, and the philosophy of science that are not part of the common ground shared by biologists. Therefore I have devoted the next three sections of this chapter to presentation of the background principles.
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Yates, F.E. (1982). Systems Analysis of Hormone Action. In: Goldberger, R.F., Yamamoto, K.R. (eds) Biological Regulation and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1125-6_2
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