The Importance of Hormesis to Public Health
Open Access
- 1 November 2006
- journal article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 114 (11), 1631-1635
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.8606
Abstract
Hormesis is a specific type of nonmonotonic dose response whose occurrence has been documented across a broad range of biological models, diverse types of exposure, and a variety of outcomes. The effects that occur at various points along this curve can ...Keywords
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