Hormesis A Revolution in Biology, Toxicology and Medicine /

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mattson, Mark P. (Editor), Calabrese, Edward J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2010.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-495-1