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In this paper, we consider the problem of living tissue self-regulation as an example of general self-organization phenomena during adaptation and functioning of active hierarchical systems of different nature without common control center. A model of living tissue self-regulation, including two aspects, is developed. The first is the hierarchically organized data self-processing via matter conservation laws in blood flows. The second is the mechanism of the response of individual vessels to a corresponding information part expressed by the activator concentration in blood. It was shown that the necessary property of the self-regulation process, i.e., the locality of the living tissue response to an external stimulus, is mainly a consequence of the hierarchical system of blood vessels and appears at a sufficiently general form of the dependence of the vessel response to the activator concentration.
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Lubashevskii, 2009, published in Kratkie Soobshcheniya po Fizike, 2009, Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 3–12.
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Lubashevskii, V.I. Quasilocality effect in active media. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 36, 219–224 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335609080016
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