Hormesis A Revolution in Biology, Toxicology and Medicine /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mattson, Mark P. (Editor), Calabrese, Edward J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Molecular biology.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Molecular Medicine.; Human Physiology.

Hormesis is defined as any circumstance in which exposure of a cell or organism to a low dose of a substance or condition results in an adaptive stimulatory/beneficial outcome, while exposure to a high dose results in an inhibitory / detrimental outcome. When plotted on a graph the shape of the dose...