REGULATORY PHENOMENA AND DATA OF GROWTH

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 41  (1) , 25-32
Abstract
The specific growth rate of a population of cells is a kinetic expression of the regulatory responses prevalent in the population. There was a generalization from the dependence of the specific growth rate of cells on the concentration of a nutrient to the regulatory response of the cells to the nutrient or to any other substance which modified the rate of growth of the population. A previously unrecognized pattern of regulation of growth was demonstrated for the chick embryo by use of a novel method of obtaining specific growth rates. The method for specific growth rates was based on derivatives of orthogonal polynomials and did not require that the data fit a preconceived equation of growth.

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