How much normal physiology should I include?
Enough to make the disruption make sense and no more. A common mistake is spending a third of the paper on normal function, which leaves too little room for the mechanism. One or two paragraphs is usually right.
This comes up on Pathophysiology Paper Support, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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