Background: Glucocorticoid excess promotes visceral obesity and cardiovascular disease. Ligand availability to the glucocorticoid receptor is controlled by isoforms of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11β-HSD) which ...

© 2018, The Author(s). The stochastic dynamics of conserved quantities is an emergent phenomena observed in many complex systems, ranging from social and to biological networks. Using an extension of the Ehrenfest urn model ...