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Molecular Basis for Adaptive Response to Environmental Toxicants or Stresses

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In nematodes, pretreatment with a mild stress or toxicant will induce an adaptive response to the following severe environmental toxicant or stress. In this chapter, we introduced the molecular alterations during the formation of adaptive response and the relevant molecular signaling pathways involved in the regulation of adaptive response induction. The future research focuses were further suggested and discussed.

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Wang, D. (2019). Molecular Basis for Adaptive Response to Environmental Toxicants or Stresses. In: Molecular Toxicology in Caenorhabditis elegans. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3633-1_14

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