1st Edition
Hormesis in Health and Disease
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
Biography
Suresh I.S. Rattan, PhD, DSc, is an internationally renowned biogerontologist at the Laboratory of Cellular Ageing, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is one of the pioneers for the testing and application of hormesis in aging research and interventions. His research expertise includes elucidating the molecular mechanisms of human cellular aging. Dr. Rattan is the discoverer of the aging-modulatory effects of kinetin and zeatin, which are now used in several skin care products. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Biogerontology. He has published numerous original research papers and reviews, and is the author of popular science books for children in several languages.
Éric Le Bourg, PhD, DSc, is an internationally renowned biogerontologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. He is well known for his studies on the effects of mild stress in Drosophila but is also working on learning, behavior, and demography matters. He has published numerous papers and has written several books on aging in French for the lay public and academics on the biology, demographic, and social matters.
Both editors have previously collaborated and edited the book Mild Stress and Healthy Aging (Springer 2008) and brought out two special issues of the international peer-reviewed journals Biogerontology (2006) and Dose Response (2010).
