Abstract
Chapters of part V have dealt with applications of stress responses in toxicology and pharmacology as they are considered today. Obviously, most future applications directly derive from the content of these chapters. However, when considering the future, some guesses will have to be made. Among these many applications, three areas appear of great potential: (i) prevention and therapy of conditions or diseases associated with an imbalance between oxidants and antioxidants, (ii) autoimmune diseases, vaccines and tumor immunology, and (iii) environmental medicine and “biological dosimetry”. While hsp65 and hsp70 may be of particular importance in the second field, hsp70 most likely conveys a major part of the protective effects, which may be enhanced by other stress proteins such as hsp27, heme oxygenase or ferritin.
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Polla, B.S. (1996). Future applications. In: Feige, U., Yahara, I., Morimoto, R.I., Polla, B.S. (eds) Stress-Inducible Cellular Responses. EXS, vol 77. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9088-5_32
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