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ANIMALS continuously exposed to a uniform damaging stimulus (a drug, exposure to cold, excessive muscular exercise, etc.) at first display the symptoms of the 'alarm reaction'1 and later pass into a resistant phase ; sooner or later, however, the power of resistance is exhausted and the symptoms reappear. It has now been found that this third stage of the general adaptation syndrome may be reached more regularly and more promptly by withholding food.
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SELYE, H. Adaptation Energy. Nature 141, 926 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141926a0
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