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Section I History and Terminology
Brief History of Hormesis and Its Terminology
Edward J. Calabrese
Pre- and Postconditioning Hormesis
F.A.C. Wiegant
Section II Evidence for Hormesis in Human Beings
Exercise and Hormesis: Shaping the Dose Response Curve
Zsolt Radak
Nutritional Components: How They Enhance the Ability to Adapt
Antje R. Weseler and Aalt Bast
Periodic Fasting and Hormesis
Yan Y. Lam and Eric Ravussin
Iron, Metabolic Syndrome, and Hormesis
Kupper A. Wintergerst and Lu Cai
Radiation Exposure
Alexander Vaiserman
Thermal Hydrotherapy as Adaptive Stress Response: Hormetic Significance, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Implications
G. Scapagnini, S. Davinelli, N.A. Fortunati, D. Zella, and M. Vitale
Cardiac Ischemic Preconditioning and the Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
Andreas Simm and Rüdiger Horstkorte
Cerebral Ischemia
Yannick Béjot and Philippe Garnier
Optimal Stress, Psychological Resilience, and the Sandpile Model
Martha Stark
Section III Molecular Mechanisms of Hormesis
Molecular Stress Response Pathways as the Basis of Hormesis
Dino Demirovic, Irene Martinez de Toda, and Suresh I.S. Rattan
Inflammatory Pathways
Salvatore Chirumbolo
Oxidative Stress Response Pathways: Role of Redox Signaling in Hormesis
Li Li Ji
Section IV Hormesis in Risk Assessment
Relating Hormesis to Ethics and Policy: Conceptual Issues and Scientific Uncertainty
George R. Hoffmann
Hormesis and Risk Assessment
Edward J. Calabrese