Crystallostasis, a new parameter of homeostasis, has been proposed and validated on the basis of long-term investigations
of crystallization pattern of various biological substrates in humans and animals and a critical analysis
of the current state of the problem. Crystallostasis is treated as an ability of a biological system to keep its own crystallogenic
potential at a constant level. General concept of crystallostasis, physiological crystallokinesis and its disorders
(crystal pathology or crystal deposition diseases) has been formulated. Crystal pathology is considered as a
systemic, spontaneously uncorrectable disorder of adaptive regulatory mechanisms that normally maintain organism
biosystems in a native aggregate state. Some general approaches have been proposed to crystallotropic therapy (crystallotherapy)
as a specific correction of crystal pathology.
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