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Chemical hormesis: its historical foundations as a biological hypothesis.

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The early history of hormesis-related experimental research is reconstructed and a foundation is provided for the assessment of how the concept of hormetic dose-response relationships may have affected the nature of the bioassay especially with respect to hazard assessment practices within a modern risk assessment Eramework.
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Despite the long history of hormesis-related experimental research no systematic effort to describe its early history has been undertaken. The present paper attempts to reconstruct and assess the early history of such research and to evaluate how advances in related scientific fields affected the course of hormesis-related research. The purpose of this paper is not only to satisfy this gap in current knowledge, but also to provide a foundation for the assessment of how the concept of hormetic dose-response relationships may have affected the nature of the bioassay especially with respect to hazard assessment practices within a modern risk assessment framework.

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Biological stress response terminology: Integrating the concepts of adaptive response and preconditioning stress within a hormetic dose-response framework

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Hormesis: why it is important to toxicology and toxicologists.

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Cellular Stress Responses, The Hormesis Paradigm, and Vitagenes: Novel Targets for Therapeutic Intervention in Neurodegenerative Disorders

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Hormesis: The Dose-Response Revolution

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TL;DR: In this paper, Porter describes the background that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation of the early 1900s, emphasizing the debt of science to nonspecialist intellectuals, and the pioneering statistical physicists and biologists, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Galton, each pointed to analogies between his discipline and social science.
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Hormesis--the stimulation of growth by low levels of inhibitors.

TL;DR: Evidence from the literature shows that not only has growth hormesis been observed in a range of taxa after exposure to a variety of agents, but also that the dose-response data have a consistent form.
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The Dose Determines the Stimulation (and Poison): Development of A Chemical Hormesis Database:

TL;DR: The present analysis suggests that chemical hormesis is a reproducible and generalizable biologic phenomenon that can be explained in multiple biologic systems with various endpoints.
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