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An important concept for the understanding of biological phenomena is given by cybernetics, also known as the theory of automatic control [1]. It is shown that chemotaxis, galvanotaxis, galvanotropism, contact guidance, etc., are functions of cells having a goal-seeking system which is an automatic controller having a closed-loop feedback system. The model is verified by means of galvanotaxis, chemotaxis and contact guidance data of granulocytes [2, 3, 4].
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Gruler, H. (1991). Cell Movement and Automatic Control. In: Peliti, L. (eds) Biologically Inspired Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 263. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9483-0_20
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