[The current problems of studying the systems morphophysiological mechanisms of animal growth].

The study of general physiological mechanisms of the growth in highly important for the substantiation of the general strategy and the choice of practical methods of animal growth regulation. A shortcoming of many phenomenological growth theories lie in the fact that they don't take into consideration the key role of the processes of cellular proliferation and of histo and organogenesis. On the basis of bibliographic and original experimental data a morphofunctional conception of growth is considered. It is supposed that the main links in body growth are the processes of cartilaginous cells division in zones of longitudinal bone growth and of muscle fibers nuclei reproduction. The use of simulation models for study of dynamics of correlation in the system of organs and tissues development is argued.