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Reported a recurring triad of physiological changes in rats exposed to diverse damaging agents, proposing a nonspecific bodily response pattern that became an early basis for stress research.
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The record is Selye's sole-author one-page 1936 Nature letter and its animal observations. It does not absorb his later general-adaptation-syndrome stages, human clinical claims, all stress biology or priority beyond this target work.
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Hans Selye
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Selye: a syndrome produced by diverse nocuous agents
Reported a recurring triad of physiological changes in rats exposed to diverse damaging agents, proposing a nonspecific bodily response pattern that became an early basis for stress research.
Scientific scope
The record is Selye's sole-author one-page 1936 Nature letter and its animal observations. It does not absorb his later general-adaptation-syndrome stages, human clinical claims, all stress biology or priority beyond this target work.
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People and systems
Hans Selye
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.