CGC Bibliography Paper 5588

Hormesis and aging.

Van Voorhies WA

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Human & Experimental Toxicology 20: 315-317 2002

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REVIEW

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Rattan?s article on the potential use of hormesis in aging research provides a well-reasoned and insightful overview of both the factors responsible for aging and the importance of stress responses in potentially modulating senescence. Rattan proceeds from the premise that the causal mechanisms responsible for aging are likely to vary not only between, and within species, but also even between different cell types of the same individual. As such, aging may have different causal mechanisms between different species, and multiple causal mechanisms within species. As a direct consequence of this, it is unlikely that a single cause of aging will be common to all