Steroid Hormone Receptors: Basic and Clinical Aspects

The past few years have witnessed the emergence of steroid hormones as the wonder molecules which generate as much discussion in the scientific literature as they do in a typical living room. This transition has been a result of the tremendous public and scientific interest in the normal functioning...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moudgil, V. K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Birkhäuser Boston 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
Series:Hormones in Health and Disease
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Recent Advances and Relation to Health and Disease
  • II Steroid Receptor Interactions with DNA and Nuclear Components
  • 2 Structural and Functional Studies of Selective DNA Binding by Steroid/Nuclear Receptors
  • 3 Estrogen Receptor Induced DNA Bending
  • 4 The Nuclear Environment and Estrogen Action
  • 5 Functional Interaction of the Estrogen Receptor with the Tissue-Specific, Homeodomain Transcription Factor, PIT-1
  • 6 Insights into the Genomic Mechanism of Action of 1, 25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3
  • 7 Molecular Mechanisms of Thyroid Hormone and Retinoic Acid Action
  • III Receptor Structure and Associated Proteins
  • 8 Heat Shock Proteins and the Cytoplasmic-Nuclear Trafficking of Steroid Receptors
  • 9 In Vitro Assembly of the Avian Progesterone Receptor
  • 10 Steroid Receptor Associated Proteins: Heat Shock Protein 90 and P59 Immunophilin
  • 11 Estrogenic and Developmental Regulation of 90-Kilodalton Heat Shock Protein Gen