Preliminary Evidence for a Hormetic Effect on DNA Nucleotide Excision Repair in Veterans with Gulf War Illness.

CONCLUSION: We suggest that the observed elevations in DNA repair capacity and NER gene expression are indicative of a "hormetic," i.e., induced or adaptive protective response to battlefield exposures. Normally such effects are short-term, but in these individuals this response has resulted in a long-term metabolic shift that may also be responsible for the persistent symptoms of GWI. PMID: 31334811 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31334811?dopt=Abstract

Source: Military Medicine - July 25, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research

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