By fairly simple considerations of stability and multistationarity in nonlinear systems of first order differential equations it is shown that under quite mild restrictions a negative feedback loop is a necessary condition for stability, and that a positive feedback loop is a necessary condition for multistationarity.
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Plahte et al. (1995) studied this question.
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