Edward Calabrese

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Affiliation: University of Massachusetts
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Hormesis: why it is important to toxicology and toxicologists
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Environ Toxicol Chem 27:1451-74. 2008
  2. ncbi Alzheimer's disease drugs: an application of the hormetic dose-response model
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:419-51. 2008
  3. ncbi Key studies used to support cancer risk assessment questioned
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Division, Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
    Environ Mol Mutagen 52:595-606. 2011
  4. ncbi Astrocytes: adaptive responses to low doses of neurotoxins
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:463-71. 2008
  5. ncbi Stress biology and hormesis: the Yerkes-Dodson law in psychology--a special case of the hormesis dose response
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:453-62. 2008
  6. ncbi Pharmacological enhancement of neuronal survival
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:349-89. 2008
  7. ncbi Neuroscience and hormesis: overview and general findings
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:249-52. 2008
  8. ncbi Another California milestone: the first application of hormesis in litigation and regulation
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Int J Toxicol 27:31-3. 2008
  9. ncbi Converging concepts: adaptive response, preconditioning, and the Yerkes-Dodson Law are manifestations of hormesis
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Ageing Res Rev 7:8-20. 2008
  10. ncbi Elliott's ethics of expertise proposal and application: a dangerous precedent
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Pleasant Street, Morrill I, N344, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Sci Eng Ethics 13:139-45. 2007

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Publications95

  1. ncbi Hormesis: why it is important to toxicology and toxicologists
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Environ Toxicol Chem 27:1451-74. 2008
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  2. ncbi Alzheimer's disease drugs: an application of the hormetic dose-response model
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:419-51. 2008
    ..Finally, the significance of the U-shaped dose response is critical for successful clinical application, since it defines the therapeutic window...
  3. ncbi Key studies used to support cancer risk assessment questioned
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Division, Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
    Environ Mol Mutagen 52:595-606. 2011
    ....
  4. ncbi Astrocytes: adaptive responses to low doses of neurotoxins
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:463-71. 2008
    ....
  5. ncbi Stress biology and hormesis: the Yerkes-Dodson law in psychology--a special case of the hormesis dose response
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:453-62. 2008
    ..The conceptual integration of the Yerkes-Dodson Law within the hormetic dose response framework adds further support for the generalization of the hormesis concept...
  6. ncbi Pharmacological enhancement of neuronal survival
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:349-89. 2008
    ..That neuroprotective agents display similar dose-response relationships regardless of experimental system, potency, and endpoint is an important observation with widespread biomedical and clinical implications...
  7. ncbi Neuroscience and hormesis: overview and general findings
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:249-52. 2008
    ....
  8. ncbi Another California milestone: the first application of hormesis in litigation and regulation
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Int J Toxicol 27:31-3. 2008
    ..This occurred in California within the context of an assessment of alleged continuing smelter contamination nearly a century ago...
  9. ncbi Converging concepts: adaptive response, preconditioning, and the Yerkes-Dodson Law are manifestations of hormesis
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Ageing Res Rev 7:8-20. 2008
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  10. ncbi Elliott's ethics of expertise proposal and application: a dangerous precedent
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Pleasant Street, Morrill I, N344, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Sci Eng Ethics 13:139-45. 2007
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  11. ncbi Threshold Dose--Response Model--RIP: 1911 to 2006
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, North Pleassant St Amherst MA 01003, USA
    Bioessays 29:686-8. 2007
    ..In fact, so poorly does this model predict low-dose responses that the idea arose that it should receive a symbolic burial recounting its achievements and failings, hence this obituary...
  12. ncbi Biological stress response terminology: Integrating the concepts of adaptive response and preconditioning stress within a hormetic dose-response framework
    Edward J Calabrese
    School of Public Health, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 222:122-8. 2007
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  13. ncbi Hormesis outperforms threshold model in National Cancer Institute antitumor drug screening database
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Program, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Toxicol Sci 94:368-78. 2006
    ..The data call for the rejection of the threshold model for low-dose prediction, and they support the hormetic model as the default model for scientific interpretation of low-dose toxicological responses...
  14. ncbi The failure of dose-response models to predict low dose effects: a major challenge for biomedical, toxicological and aging research
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Morrill I, N344 Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Biogerontology 7:119-22. 2006
    ..These findings have particular relevance to the area of biogerontology since this discipline often resides at the pharmacological-toxicological interface...
  15. ncbi Drug development and hormesis: changing conceptual understanding of the dose response creates new challenges and opportunities for more effective drugs
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Program, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Curr Opin Drug Discov Devel 9:117-23. 2006
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  16. ncbi Cancer biology and hormesis: human tumor cell lines commonly display hormetic (biphasic) dose responses
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 35:463-582. 2005
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  17. ncbi Historical blunders: how toxicology got the dose-response relationship half right
    E J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Program, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 01003, USA
    Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 51:643-54. 2005
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  18. ncbi Paradigm lost, paradigm found: the re-emergence of hormesis as a fundamental dose response model in the toxicological sciences
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Environ Pollut 138:379-411. 2005
    ..Such historical and technical blind spots lead the field of toxicology to not only reject an established dose-response model (hormesis), but also the model that was more common and fundamental than those that the field accepted...
  19. ncbi P-glycoprotein efflux transporter activity often displays biphasic dose-response relationships
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:473-87. 2008
    ..These findings provide further support for the generalizability of the hormetic dose-response model while having important biological and clinical implications, including transport through the blood-brain barrier...
  20. ncbi An assessment of anxiolytic drug screening tests: hormetic dose responses predominate
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences Division, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:489-542. 2008
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  21. ncbi Modulation of the epileptic seizure threshold: implications of biphasic dose responses
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences Divison, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:543-56. 2008
    ..These findings support the generalizability of the hormetic dose-response concept and may have important implications for the discovery of antiseizure drugs and their clinical evaluation...
  22. ncbi Muller's Nobel lecture on dose-response for ionizing radiation: ideology or science?
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Arch Toxicol 85:1495-8. 2011
    ..This finding is of historical importance since Muller's Nobel Lecture gained considerable international attention and is a turning point in the acceptance of the linearity model in risk assessment for germ cell mutations and carcinogens...
  23. ncbi The hormesis database: the occurrence of hormetic dose responses in the toxicological literature
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health an Health Sciences, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 61:73-81. 2011
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  24. ncbi Hormesis provides a generalized quantitative estimate of biological plasticity
    Edward J Calabrese
    School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Morrill I, N344, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
    J Cell Commun Signal 5:25-38. 2011
    ..The quantitative features of plasticity are described by the hormesis dose response model. These findings have important biological, biomedical and evolutionary implications...
  25. ncbi Dose response biology: the case of resveratrol
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 29:1034-7. 2010
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  26. ncbi Evaluating homeopathic drugs within a biomedical framework
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Program, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 29:545-9. 2010
    ..This developmental framework can provide a scientific 'point of contact' between the homeopathic and biomedical communities, which has long been lacking...
  27. ncbi Homeopathy: clarifying its relationship to hormesis
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Program, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 29:531-6. 2010
    ..This experimental framework (along with a pre-conditioning model developed by Bellavite) provides a possible vehicle by which certain aspect(s) of homeopathy may be integrated into mainstream biomedical assessment and clinical practice...
  28. ncbi Hormesis is central to toxicology, pharmacology and risk assessment
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 29:249-61. 2010
    ..It is expected that as low dose responses come to dominate toxicological research that risk assessment practices will incorporate hormetic concepts in the standard setting process...
  29. ncbi Toxicology rewrites its history and rethinks its future: giving equal focus to both harmful and beneficial effects
    Edward J Calabrese
    School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
    Environ Toxicol Chem 30:2658-73. 2011
    ..Toxicology needs to assess the entire dose-response continuum, incorporating both harmful and beneficial effects into the risk assessment process...
  30. ncbi Hormesis in high-throughput screening of antibacterial compounds in E coli
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 29:667-77. 2010
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  31. ncbi Hormesis: a conversation with a critic
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
    Environ Health Perspect 117:1339-43. 2009
    ..Environ Health Perspect 117:1333-1338 (2009)], which principally concerns studies by me and my colleagues concerning the frequency of hormesis in toxicology...
  32. ncbi The road to linearity: why linearity at low doses became the basis for carcinogen risk assessment
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences Division, Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Morrill I, N344, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Arch Toxicol 83:203-25. 2009
    ..These observations suggest that while scientific disciplines are self correcting, that regulatory 'science' fails to display the same self-correcting mechanism despite contradictory data...
  33. ncbi Getting the dose-response wrong: why hormesis became marginalized and the threshold model accepted
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Morrill I, N344, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Arch Toxicol 83:227-47. 2009
    ..This analysis challenges a key foundation upon which biological, biomedical and clinical science rest...
  34. ncbi Hormesis and plant biology
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division, Pleasant Street, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Environ Pollut 157:42-8. 2009
    ..The database establishes that hormetic dose responses commonly occur in plants, are broadly generalizable, and have quantitative features similar to hormetic dose responses found for animals...
  35. ncbi Addiction and dose response: the psychomotor stimulant theory of addiction reveals that hormetic dose responses are dominant
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences Division, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:599-617. 2008
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  36. ncbi Pain and u-shaped dose responses: occurrence, mechanisms, and clinical implications
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences Division, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:579-90. 2008
    ..These findings have important implications for drug discovery, development, and clinical evaluation...
  37. ncbi Hormesis and medicine
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Br J Clin Pharmacol 66:594-617. 2008
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  38. ncbi Hormetic dose-response relationships in immunology: occurrence, quantitative features of the dose response, mechanistic foundations, and clinical implications
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 35:89-295. 2005
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  39. ncbi Chemotherapeutics and hormesis
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 33:305-53. 2003
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  40. ncbi Nitric oxide: biphasic dose responses
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:489-501. 2001
    ..5 to 500-fold, the majority was < or = 10-fold. These findings indicate that biphasic dose-response relationships are common manifestations of the NO-induced effects...
  41. ncbi Androgens: biphasic dose responses
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:517-22. 2001
    ..Testosterone production was also biphasically affected by prolactin that was administered to adult testicular cells in vitro...
  42. ncbi The effects of diisopropylmethylphosphonate, a by-product of the production of sarin and a contaminant in drinking water at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, on female mink
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Science, Morrill I, N344, School of Public Health and Health Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 37:191-201. 2003
    ..concerning the effects of DIMP on mink as well as identify for the first time that pregnancy/lactation in mink is a risk factor in the induction of thymic atrophy and the elevation of serum ALT/AST...
  43. ncbi Adrenergic receptors: biphasic dose responses
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:523-38. 2001
    ..The range of stimulatory responses was generally within 10- to 1000-fold, except for the platelet aggregation endpoint where the range was 10(3) to 10(5)...
  44. ncbi Adenosine: biphasic dose responses
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:539-51. 2001
    ..In general, the maximum stimulatory response was 2.5-fold or less than controls, while the stimulatory concentration range was quite variable ranging from 10- to 10(5)-fold...
  45. ncbi Risk communication and the challenge of hormesis
    Edward Calabrese
    UMASS School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Amherst, MA, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 22:1. 2003
  46. ncbi Dopamine: biphasic dose responses
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:563-83. 2001
    ..Mechanistic studies suggested that the stimulatory and inhibitory effects of dopamine are mediated by different receptors or receptor subtypes having opposite actions and different ligand affinities...
  47. ncbi Hormesis: the dose-response revolution
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol 43:175-97. 2003
    ..g., concept of NOAEL (no observed adverse effect level), low dose modeling, recognition of beneficial as well as harmful responses] for all agents, and (c) the harmonization of cancer and noncancer risk assessment...
  48. ncbi Opiates: biphasic dose responses
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:585-604. 2001
    ..Mechanistic assessments were conducted for most biphasic dose-response relationships and are addressed in detail...
  49. ncbi Amyloid beta-peptide: biphasic dose responses
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:605-6. 2001
    ..These findings suggest the critical role of dose in understanding disease causation and clinical therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease...
  50. ncbi The effects of gamma rays on longevity
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill Science Center, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Biogerontology 1:309-19. 2000
    ..The underlying mechanisms affecting the apparent enhancement in longevity are believed to result from the stimulation of hematopoietic and immune systems following an initial low level chronic injury to the bone marrow...
  51. ncbi Defining hormesis
    E J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 21:91-7. 2002
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  52. ncbi Prostaglandins: biphasic dose responses
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:475-87. 2001
    ..These findings have considerable implications for the understanding of basic biological regulatory processes as well as clinical practices...
  53. ncbi Applications of hormesis in toxicology, risk assessment and chemotherapeutics
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 10003, USA
    Trends Pharmacol Sci 23:331-7. 2002
    ..In this article, a broad range of basic issues associated with the acceptance of U-shaped dose responses as central to toxicology, pharmacology and their applications to risk assessment and medicine will be discussed...
  54. ncbi Hormesis: U-shaped dose responses and their centrality in toxicology
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Trends Pharmacol Sci 22:285-91. 2001
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  55. ncbi The Single Exposure Carcinogen Database: assessing the circumstances under which a single exposure to a carcinogen can cause cancer
    E J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Toxicol Sci 50:169-85. 1999
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  56. ncbi Hormesis: a revolution in toxicology, risk assessment and medicine
    Edward J Calabrese
    University of Massachusetts School of Public Health in Amherst, MA, USA
    EMBO Rep 5:S37-40. 2004
  57. ncbi Hormesis: from marginalization to mainstream: a case for hormesis as the default dose-response model in risk assessment
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Morrill I, N344, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 197:125-36. 2004
    ..The selection of the hormetic model as the default model in risk assessment for noncarcinogens and specifically for carcinogens would have a profound impact on the practice of risk assessment and its societal implications...
  58. ncbi The effects of diisopropylmethylphosphonate on female mink: how medical intervention biased mortality data
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Science, University of Massachusetts, Morrill I, N344 Amherst, MA 01003 5712, USA
    Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 38:260-8. 2003
    ..These findings indicate that the DIMP treated female mink were more likely to have benefited from the intervention than the controls. The intervention, therefore, reduced the likelihood of observing treatment-related effects...
  59. ncbi Hormesis: a generalizable and unifying hypothesis
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:353-424. 2001
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  60. ncbi Ethanol and hormesis
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 33:407-24. 2003
    ..These findings have important implications affecting study design, animal model, and endpoint selection as well as clinical applications...
  61. ncbi Peptides and hormesis
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 33:355-405. 2003
    ..These findings strongly suggest that hormetic-like biphasic dose responses represent a broadly generalizable biological phenomenon...
  62. ncbi Overcompensation stimulation: a mechanism for hormetic effects
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:425-70. 2001
    ..The finding also demonstrates the significant role of temporal factors in the assessment of dose response relationships...
  63. ncbi The occurrence of hormetic dose responses in the toxicological literature, the hormesis database: an overview
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 202:289-301. 2005
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  64. ncbi Evidence for hormesis in mutagenicity dose-response relationships
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Mutat Res 726:91-7. 2011
    ..Only 2.2% (1/46) of the assays satisfied the evaluative criteria for hormesis. In conclusion, these data support a hormetic model for TA100, whereas the responses for TA97 and TA98 are consistent with a threshold dose-response model...
  65. ncbi Hormesis predicts low-dose responses better than threshold models
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Int J Toxicol 27:369-78. 2008
    ..2006, Toxicol. Sci. 94:368-378). Taken together, the analyses provide strong evidence for hormesis, a phenomenon with a broad range of biomedical and toxicological implications...
  66. ncbi Hormesis: changing view of the dose-response, a personal account of the history and current status
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Mutat Res 511:181-9. 2002
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  67. ncbi BELLE: an evolving legacy
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 29:247-8. 2010
    ..A brief overview of how BELLE was created is provided...
  68. ncbi Resveratrol commonly displays hormesis: occurrence and biomedical significance
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 29:980-1015. 2010
    ..Despite consistent occurrence of hormetic dose responses of resveratrol in a wide range of biomedical models, epidemiologic and clinical trials are needed to assess the nature of its dose-response in humans...
  69. ncbi U-shaped dose response in behavioral pharmacology: historical foundations
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences Division, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:591-8. 2008
    ..The article provides a reinterpretation of the biphasic dose response in the fixed interval (FI) schedule of reinforcement...
  70. ncbi Dose-response features of neuroprotective agents: an integrative summary
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:253-348. 2008
    ..Mechanisms that account for numerous hormetic dose responses of neuroprotective agents are summarized, as well as the clinical implications of specific experimental findings...
  71. ncbi The hormetic dose-response model is more common than the threshold model in toxicology
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Toxicol Sci 71:246-50. 2003
    ..These findings may affect numerous aspects of toxicological and biological/biomedical research related to dose-response relationships, including study design, risk assessment, as well as chemotherapeutic strategies...
  72. ncbi Enhancing and regulating neurite outgrowth
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:391-418. 2008
    ..The findings also display an essential role for hormetic dose-response relationships in normal neuronal-based developmental and tissue repair processes...
  73. ncbi Hormesis: how it could affect the risk assessment process
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 24:265-70. 2005
    ..By dismissing hormesis, regulatory agencies such as EPA deny the public the opportunity for optimal health and avoidance of disease...
  74. ncbi Hormesis and high-risk groups
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003 5712, USA
    Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 35:414-28. 2002
    ..Thus, the capacity to display hormetic effects is one of a variety of factors affecting differential susceptibility to xenobiotics and needs to be addressed within the hazard assessment process...
  75. ncbi Hormesis and the law: introduction
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 27:95-6. 2008
  76. ncbi Toxicological awakenings: the rebirth of hormesis as a central pillar of toxicology
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 204:1-8. 2005
    ..Acceptance of the possibility of hormesis has the potential to profoundly affect the practice of toxicology and risk assessment, especially with respect to carcinogen assessment...
  77. ncbi Toxicology rethinks its central belief
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Nature 421:691-2. 2003
  78. ncbi Bioavailability of arsenic in soil: pilot study results and design considerations
    Edward J Stanek
    Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Arnold House, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 29:945-60. 2010
    ..7% (95% CI [36.2%, 61.3%]). Relative to bioavailability of As from food/beverage sources, soil-As is estimated to be 54.3% (95% CI [40.3%, 68.4%]) as bioavailable...
  79. ncbi Drug therapies for stroke and traumatic brain injury often display U-shaped dose responses: occurrence, mechanisms, and clinical implications
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences Division, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 38:557-77. 2008
    ..These findings suggest that U-shaped dose responses in animal stroke/TBI models may be a general occurrence and have significant implications for drug discovery, drug development, and clinical practice...
  80. ncbi Should hormesis be the default model in risk assessment?
    Edward J Calabrese
    Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
    Hum Exp Toxicol 24:243. 2005
  81. ncbi Hormesis--basic, generalizable, central to toxicology and a method to improve the risk-assessment process
    Edward J Calabrese
    School of Public Health, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Int J Occup Environ Health 10:466-7. 2004
    ..The author addresses issues relating to the definition of hormesis, the relationship of hormesis to risk assessment and risk management, and the generalizability of hormesis within the toxicological literature...
  82. ncbi Inorganics and hormesis
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 33:215-304. 2003
    ..The hormetic dose response should be seen as a reliable feature of the dose response for inorganic agents and will have an important impact on the estimated effects of such agents on environmental and human receptors...
  83. ncbi Estrogen and related compounds: biphasic dose responses
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:503-15. 2001
    ..Mechanistic explanations of the biphasic responses are addressed...
  84. ncbi Tumor resistance explained by hormesis
    Edward J Calabrese
    Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Dose Response 8:80-2. 2010
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  85. ncbi Apoptosis: biphasic dose responses
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:607-13. 2001
    ..The underlying mechanisms and biomedical implications of this biphasic dose-response phenomenon are discussed...
  86. ncbi The future of hormesis: where do we go from here?
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
    Crit Rev Toxicol 31:637-48. 2001
    ..This perspective is then immediately critiqued by five authors in subsequent articles...
  87. ncbi The frequency of U-shaped dose responses in the toxicological literature
    E J Calabrese
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
    Toxicol Sci 62:330-8. 2001
    ..These findings have broad-based implications for study design, risk assessment methods, and the establishment of optimal drug doses and suggest important evolutionarily adaptive strategies for dose-response relationships...
  88. ncbi An allegation of scientific misconduct in the Bucci et al. article concerning the effects of DIMP on mink
    Edward J Calabrese
    Reprod Toxicol 19:443-6; author reply 447-51. 2005
  89. ncbi Toxicological diversity: making room for the U-shaped dose-response
    Edward J Calabrese
    Hum Exp Toxicol 22:465-6. 2003
  90. ncbi The importance of hormesis to public health
    Ralph Cook
    RRC Consulting, LLC, Midland, Michigan, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 114:1631-5. 2006
    ..CONCLUSIONS: We believe that ignoring hormesis is poor policy because it ignores knowledge that could be used to improve public health...
  91. ncbi Hormesis is biology, not religion
    Ralph R Cook
    Environ Health Perspect 114:A688. 2006
  92. ncbi Hormesis and mixtures
    Edward J Calabrese
    Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 229:262-3; author reply 264. 2008
  93. ncbi Hormesis and stage specific toxicity induced by cadmium in an insect model, the queen blowfly, Phormia regina Meig
    Marc A Nascarella
    Department of Environmental Toxicology, The Institute of Environmental and Human Health, Texas Tech University, Box 41163, Lubbock, TX 79409 1163, USA
    Environ Pollut 124:257-62. 2003
    ..These findings indicate the need to assess the impact of environmental stressors over a broad range of potential exposures as well as throughout the entire life cycle...
  94. ncbi "Effects of subchronic exposure to a complex mixture of persistent contaminants in male rats: systemic, immune and reproductive effects"
    Edward J Calabrese
    Toxicol Sci 69:286; author reply 286-7. 2002
  95. ncbi The importance of hormesis to public health
    Ralph Cook
    RRC Consulting, Midland, Michigan, USA
    Cien Saude Colet 12:955-63. 2007
    ..We believe that ignoring hormesis is poor policy because it ignores knowledge that could be used to improve public health...