Medical Hypotheses
Volume 54, Issue 5 , Pages 685-688, May 2000

Biological effects of low-level environmental agents

BION, Institute for Bioelectromagnetics and New Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Received 26 March 1999; accepted 19 July 1999.

Abstract 

We compare three similar but different biological effects: provocation-neutralisation treatment of non-antibody-mediated hypersensitivities, hormesis and low-level effects in radiation biology. All three have not yet been fully explained but share some common and interesting properties: non-linear concentration dependence, typical stress pattern and typical immune response. We try to make a generalisation of the three phenomena in terms of the informational properties of the low concentrations, and imply the possible common mechanism.

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PII: S0306-9877(99)90968-4

doi:10.1054/mehy.1999.0968

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 54, Issue 5 , Pages 685-688, May 2000

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