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Dietrich JW, Tesche A, Pickardt CR, Mitzdorf U. Fractal Properties of the Thyrotropic Feedback Control: Implications of a Nonlinear Model Compared with Empirical Data. In: Trappl R, ed. Cybernetics and Systems 2002. Vienna: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies; 2002:329-34.
Dietrich JW. Der Hypophysen-Schilddrüsen-Regelkreis. Entwicklung und klinische Anwendung eines nichtlinearen Modells. Vol. 2 Berlin: Logos-Verlag; 2002. (Schardt F, ed. Spektrum medizinischer Forschung).
Dietrich JW, Tesche A, Pickardt CR, Mitzdorf U. Thyrotropic Feedback Control: Evidence for an Additional Ultrashort Feedback Loop from Fractal Analysis. Cybernetics and Systems. 2004;35(4):315-31.
Dietrich, JW and BO Boehm (2006). Equilibrium behaviour of feedback-coupled physiological saturation kinetics. In: Cybernetics and Systems 2006. R. Trappl (Hrsg). Vienna, Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. 1: 269-74.
Dietrich, JW, G Landgrafe, EH Fotiadou (2012). TSH and thyrotropic agonists: Key actors in thyroid homeostasis. Journal of Thyroid Research, vol. 2012, Article ID 351864, 29 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/351864.
Hoermann R, Midgley JE, Larisch R, Dietrich JW (2013). Is pituitary TSH an adequate measure of thyroid hormone-controlled homoeostasis during thyroxine treatment? Eur J Endocrinol. 168(2):271-80. doi:10.1530/EJE-12-0819. PMID 23184912.
Midgley JE, Hoermann R, Larisch R, Dietrich JW (2013). Physiological states and functional relation between thyrotropin and free thyroxine in thyroid health and disease: in vivo and in silico data suggest a hierarchical model. J Clin Pathol. 2013 Apr;66(4):335-42. doi:10.1136/jclinpath-2012-201213. PMID 23423518.
Hoermann R, Midgley JE, Larisch R, Dietrich JW (2015). Integration of Peripheral and Glandular Regulation of Triiodothyronine Production by Thyrotropin in Untreated and Thyroxine-Treated Subjects. Horm Metab Res. 2015 Mar 6. PMID 25750078.
Dietrich JW, Landgrafe-Mende G, Wiora E, Chatzitomaris A, Klein HH., Midgley JE, Hoermann R. (2016) Calculated parameters of thyroid homeostasis: Emerging tools for differential diagnosis and clinical research. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 2016; 7:00057. PMID 27375554. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2016.00057.
Chatzitomaris A, Hoermann R, Midley JE, Hering S, Urban A, Dietrich B, Abood A, Klein HH, Dietrich JW (2017). Thyroid Allostasis ñ Adaptive Responses of Thyrotropic Feedback Control to Conditions of Strain, Stress and Developmental Programming. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 2017; 8:00163. PMID 28775711. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2017.00163