title: [Theoretical discussion on stress and its projection to pathology].
abstract: The stress is presented in the perspective of an automatic response related to hereditary behavior, where the threat played the role of a a basic stressor. Thus only offensive or disagreeable agents are accepted as stressors, a point of theoretical important implications. The demonstration that only the inescapable chronic stressor produces immunodepression enriched the transformation of a pathogenic factor into a pathological event by means of the repeated stress reaction.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vargas Fernández
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology
vernacular_title: Discusión teórica del estrés y su proyección a la patología.