Introducing temperature‐compensation in any reaction kinetic oscillator model

Abstract The positive and negative feedback loops in oscillatory reactions provide a basis for obtaining temperature‐compensation in any reaction‐kinetic model of chemical or biological oscillators. The present paper shows that positive and negative feedback reactions play the role of “opposing reactions”; whose existence was suggested by Hastings and Sweeney for more than 30 years ago. The principle is illustrated with the Brusselator model.

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