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1. heat-shock response
A constellation of responses that occur when an organism is exposed to excessive heat and other environmental stressors. Responses include synthesis of some proteins, repression of other proteins, and expression of new proteins. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)

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