The discovery in 1936 that rats respond to various damaging stimuli with a general response that involves alarm, resistance and exhaustion launched the discipline of stress research.
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Fink, G. Eighty years of stress. Nature 539, 175–176 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20473
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