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Published August 4, 1981 | public
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The Response of Biochemical Reaction Systems to Oscillating Stimuli

Abstract

In this paper I shall discuss, in a general way, some basic dynamical properties of biochemical reaction schemes that are subjected to an external perturbation that oscillates in time. The first part of this paper will deal with the ways in which a weak external oscillating stimulus is able to alter the concentrations of metabolites in a biochemical system. This part will, in particular, consider what happens when the reaction system already oscillates in a limit cycle mode due to non-linearities in its reaction kinetics. It will be shown that such an autonomous biochemical oscillator may exhibit an enhanced sensitivity to a narrow range of externally applied frequencies.

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© 1981 American Chemical Society. Received December 9, 1980. Publication in print August 04, 1981. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant NS-07071.

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