Protective and damaging effects of the mediators of stress and adaptation: Allostasis and allostatic load

Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 65-98

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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