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Transgenic approaches to reintegration
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Received 5 May 2006; accepted 8 May 2006
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See article by Willems et al. [1] (pages 79–87) in this issue.
The goal of physiology has always been to understand how organisms function. In a far-reaching field that encompasses aspects of biology, chemistry, and physics, the three mainstays of the physical sciences, terms such as homeostasis, or Claude Bernard's concept of the milieu interior, have often been used to define the balance amongst many diverse processes that yield the net outcome determining health or disease,