Biological stress response terminology: Integrating the concepts of adaptive response and preconditioning stress within a hormetic dose–response framework

by Mark Miller | Mar 7, 2019 | Hormesis

FYI: The topic of “hormesis” is frequently discussed by SARI members. Some who use the term appear not to be familiar with the paper below that relates to hormesis-associated terminology. Table 1 of the paper distinguishes between “radiation conditioning hormesis”,...

The Scientific Coming of Age of an Old Concept: Hormesis

by Mark Miller | Mar 6, 2019 | Hormesis

  https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-gravity-weight/201903/the-scientific-coming-age-old-concept-hormesis

Recovery From Rheumatoid Arthritis Following 15 Months of Therapy With Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation: A Case Report

by Mark Miller | Feb 4, 2019 | Hormesis, Nuclear Medicine

The patient’s protection systems appear to have adapted to stimulated conditions, sufficiently to sustain the recovery from RA. Such a long-term course of treatments and follow-up maintenance could be carried out in any hospital that has these low-dose radiation...

Present and Future Prospects of Radiation Therapy Using α-Emitting Nuclides

by Mark Miller | Feb 4, 2019 | Hormesis, Nuclear Medicine

  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784465/ This article reports the results of treatments on 4 patients with cancer and reviews the clinical use of α-radiation from 223Ra and radon. It discusses the prospect of using the novel 225Ac-prostate-specific...

Estimating the Range of the Maximum Hormetic Stimulatory Response – Calabrese, et. al.

by Mark Miller | Jan 6, 2019 | Hormesis

Calabrese-et-al-2019_Range of max stimulatory response An ever-expanding hormetic database (HDB) was used to demonstrate that the median maximal hormetic stimulatory response (MHSR) of biphasic dose-response relationships increases in value with an increase in the...

Reflections on Basic Science Studies Involving Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation – Paunesku, Tatjana; Woloschak, Gayle

by Mark Miller | Dec 18, 2018 | Hormesis, LNT Hypothesis

https://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Fulltext/2018/11000/Reflections_on_Basic_Science_Studies_Involving_Low.10.aspx In THIS article, we argue that the current perception of what radiation carcinogenesis modeling is about is one of the core problems in radiation...