The specifically nonspecific stress from a genetic point of view: "Press – Stress – Gress" path



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The biological concept of "stress", set out in the works of G. Selye, created an entire scientific direction. She has played and continues to play a major role in the development of biomedical research. Scientific progress leads to filling the term "stress" with new biological content at different levels of study. At the same time, unjustified expansion often leads to a blurring of the concept, clogging with "cryptic" terms that complicate the understanding of the phenomenon.

The purpose of the work is to discuss some points that complicate or distort the scientific content of the term "stress". From a genetic point of view, it is proposed to consider the phenomenon as a condition that occurs when the body is unable to adapt within the limits of its "reaction norm", determined by the genotype. 

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Eugene V. Daev

Saint-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg; Pavlov Institute of Physiology
Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg

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Email: e.daev@spbu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2036-6790
SPIN-code: 8926-6034
Scopus Author ID: 6701779129
ResearcherId: D-1165-2013

PhD, Sc.D., professor, Dept. Genetics and Biotechnology; Led. Sci. Res., Lab. of genetics of higher nervous activity 

Russian Federation, Университетская наб.,7/9, кафедра генетики и биотехнологии Биологического факультета Санкт-Петербургского Государственного университета, Санкт Петербург; наб. Макарова, 6, лаборатория генетики высшей нервной деятельности Института физиологии им. И.П.Павлова РАН, Санкт-Петербург

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