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Hormesis: why it is important to toxicology and toxicologistsEdward 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....
Alzheimer's disease drugs: an application of the hormetic dose-response modelEdward 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...
Key studies used to support cancer risk assessment questionedEdward 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....
Astrocytes: adaptive responses to low doses of neurotoxinsEdward J Calabrese
Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Crit Rev Toxicol 38:463-71. 2008....
Stress biology and hormesis: the Yerkes-Dodson law in psychology--a special case of the hormesis dose responseEdward 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...
Pharmacological enhancement of neuronal survivalEdward 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...
Neuroscience and hormesis: overview and general findingsEdward J Calabrese
Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Crit Rev Toxicol 38:249-52. 2008....
Another California milestone: the first application of hormesis in litigation and regulationEdward 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...
Converging concepts: adaptive response, preconditioning, and the Yerkes-Dodson Law are manifestations of hormesisEdward 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....
Elliott's ethics of expertise proposal and application: a dangerous precedentEdward 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....
Threshold Dose--Response Model--RIP: 1911 to 2006Edward 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...
Biological stress response terminology: Integrating the concepts of adaptive response and preconditioning stress within a hormetic dose-response frameworkEdward J Calabrese
School of Public Health, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 222:122-8. 2007....
Hormesis outperforms threshold model in National Cancer Institute antitumor drug screening databaseEdward 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...
The failure of dose-response models to predict low dose effects: a major challenge for biomedical, toxicological and aging researchEdward 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...
Drug development and hormesis: changing conceptual understanding of the dose response creates new challenges and opportunities for more effective drugsEdward 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....
Cancer biology and hormesis: human tumor cell lines commonly display hormetic (biphasic) dose responsesEdward J Calabrese
Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
Crit Rev Toxicol 35:463-582. 2005....
Historical blunders: how toxicology got the dose-response relationship half rightE 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....
Paradigm lost, paradigm found: the re-emergence of hormesis as a fundamental dose response model in the toxicological sciencesEdward 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...
P-glycoprotein efflux transporter activity often displays biphasic dose-response relationshipsEdward 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...
An assessment of anxiolytic drug screening tests: hormetic dose responses predominateEdward 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....
Modulation of the epileptic seizure threshold: implications of biphasic dose responsesEdward 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...
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...
The hormesis database: the occurrence of hormetic dose responses in the toxicological literatureEdward 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....
Hormesis provides a generalized quantitative estimate of biological plasticityEdward 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...
Dose response biology: the case of resveratrolEdward J Calabrese
Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Hum Exp Toxicol 29:1034-7. 2010....
Evaluating homeopathic drugs within a biomedical frameworkEdward 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...
Homeopathy: clarifying its relationship to hormesisEdward 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...
Hormesis is central to toxicology, pharmacology and risk assessmentEdward 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...
Toxicology rewrites its history and rethinks its future: giving equal focus to both harmful and beneficial effectsEdward 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...
Hormesis in high-throughput screening of antibacterial compounds in E coliEdward J Calabrese
Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Hum Exp Toxicol 29:667-77. 2010....
Hormesis: a conversation with a criticEdward 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...
The road to linearity: why linearity at low doses became the basis for carcinogen risk assessmentEdward 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...
Getting the dose-response wrong: why hormesis became marginalized and the threshold model acceptedEdward 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...
Hormesis and plant biologyEdward 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...
Addiction and dose response: the psychomotor stimulant theory of addiction reveals that hormetic dose responses are dominantEdward 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....
Pain and u-shaped dose responses: occurrence, mechanisms, and clinical implicationsEdward 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...
Hormesis and medicineEdward 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....
Hormetic dose-response relationships in immunology: occurrence, quantitative features of the dose response, mechanistic foundations, and clinical implicationsEdward J Calabrese
Environmental Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Crit Rev Toxicol 35:89-295. 2005....
Chemotherapeutics and hormesisEdward J Calabrese
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Crit Rev Toxicol 33:305-53. 2003....
Nitric oxide: biphasic dose responsesE 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...
Androgens: biphasic dose responsesE 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...
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 minkEdward 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...
Adrenergic receptors: biphasic dose responsesE 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)...
Adenosine: biphasic dose responsesE 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...
Risk communication and the challenge of hormesisEdward Calabrese
UMASS School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Amherst, MA, USA
Hum Exp Toxicol 22:1. 2003
Dopamine: biphasic dose responsesE 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...
Hormesis: the dose-response revolutionEdward 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...
Opiates: biphasic dose responsesE 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...
Amyloid beta-peptide: biphasic dose responsesE 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...
The effects of gamma rays on longevityE 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...
Defining hormesisE J Calabrese
Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
Hum Exp Toxicol 21:91-7. 2002....
Prostaglandins: biphasic dose responsesE 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...
Applications of hormesis in toxicology, risk assessment and chemotherapeuticsEdward 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...
Hormesis: U-shaped dose responses and their centrality in toxicologyE 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....
The Single Exposure Carcinogen Database: assessing the circumstances under which a single exposure to a carcinogen can cause cancerE J Calabrese
Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA
Toxicol Sci 50:169-85. 1999....
Hormesis: a revolution in toxicology, risk assessment and medicineEdward J Calabrese
University of Massachusetts School of Public Health in Amherst, MA, USA
EMBO Rep 5:S37-40. 2004
Hormesis: from marginalization to mainstream: a case for hormesis as the default dose-response model in risk assessmentEdward 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...
The effects of diisopropylmethylphosphonate on female mink: how medical intervention biased mortality dataEdward 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...
Hormesis: a generalizable and unifying hypothesisE 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....
Ethanol and hormesisEdward 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...
Peptides and hormesisEdward 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...
Overcompensation stimulation: a mechanism for hormetic effectsE 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...
The occurrence of hormetic dose responses in the toxicological literature, the hormesis database: an overviewEdward J Calabrese
Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 202:289-301. 2005....
Evidence for hormesis in mutagenicity dose-response relationshipsEdward 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...
Hormesis predicts low-dose responses better than threshold modelsEdward 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...
Hormesis: changing view of the dose-response, a personal account of the history and current statusEdward 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....
BELLE: an evolving legacyEdward 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...
Resveratrol commonly displays hormesis: occurrence and biomedical significanceEdward 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...
U-shaped dose response in behavioral pharmacology: historical foundationsEdward 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...
Dose-response features of neuroprotective agents: an integrative summaryEdward 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...
The hormetic dose-response model is more common than the threshold model in toxicologyEdward 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...
Enhancing and regulating neurite outgrowthEdward 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...
Hormesis: how it could affect the risk assessment processEdward 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...
Hormesis and high-risk groupsEdward 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...
Hormesis and the law: introductionEdward J Calabrese
Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Hum Exp Toxicol 27:95-6. 2008
Toxicological awakenings: the rebirth of hormesis as a central pillar of toxicologyEdward 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...
Toxicology rethinks its central beliefEdward J Calabrese
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Nature 421:691-2. 2003
Bioavailability of arsenic in soil: pilot study results and design considerationsEdward 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...
Drug therapies for stroke and traumatic brain injury often display U-shaped dose responses: occurrence, mechanisms, and clinical implicationsEdward 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...
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
Hormesis--basic, generalizable, central to toxicology and a method to improve the risk-assessment processEdward 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...
Inorganics and hormesisEdward 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...
Estrogen and related compounds: biphasic dose responsesE 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...
Tumor resistance explained by hormesisEdward J Calabrese
Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Dose Response 8:80-2. 2010....
Apoptosis: biphasic dose responsesE 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...
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...
The frequency of U-shaped dose responses in the toxicological literatureE 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...
An allegation of scientific misconduct in the Bucci et al. article concerning the effects of DIMP on minkEdward J Calabrese
Reprod Toxicol 19:443-6; author reply 447-51. 2005
Toxicological diversity: making room for the U-shaped dose-responseEdward J Calabrese
Hum Exp Toxicol 22:465-6. 2003
The importance of hormesis to public healthRalph 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...
Hormesis is biology, not religionRalph R Cook
Environ Health Perspect 114:A688. 2006
Hormesis and mixturesEdward J Calabrese
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 229:262-3; author reply 264. 2008
Hormesis and stage specific toxicity induced by cadmium in an insect model, the queen blowfly, Phormia regina MeigMarc 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...
"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
The importance of hormesis to public healthRalph 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...
