Title | Steroid Receptors in Health and Disease [electronic resource] / edited by Virinder K. Moudgil |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1988 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5541-0 |
Descript | XI, 334 p. online resource |
I. Introduction and Keynote Address -- 1. Steroid Receptors in Health and Disease -- 2. Steroid Receptors: A Historical Perspective -- II. Receptor Structure and Molecular Organization -- 3. Intracellular Localization of Steroid Hormone Receptors: Immunocytochemical Analysis -- 4. Immunocytochemistry of Estrogen and Progestin Receptors in the Primate Reproductive Tract -- 5. Structure, Functional Domains and Subcellular Distribution of Glucocorticoid Receptor -- 6. Hormone-Dependent Phosphorylation of the Avian Progesterone Receptor -- III. Receptor Modifications and Hormone Regulation -- 7. Hormone-Dependent and Hormone-Independent Conformational Transitions of the Estrogen Receptor -- 8. Human Progesterone Receptors A and B: Two Independent, Functional Forms -- 9. Androgen Regulation of Gene Expression: Studies of Ornithine Decarboxylase in Murine Kidney -- 10. Advances in Uterus Estradiol Receptor Phosphorylation on Tyrosine and Preliminary Evidences that Liver Glucocorticoid Receptor Might Be Phosphorylated on Tyrosine -- IV. Receptor Gene Structure and Function -- 11. Functional Analysis of the Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors -- 12. Molecular Determinants of Positive and Negative Regulation by Ligand-Regulated Transcription Factors -- 13. The Mammalian Progesterone Receptor: Cloning, Immunolocalization and Mechanism of Interaction with DNA -- 14. Isolation and Sequence of the Human Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene Promoter. Cloning of the Human Androgen Receptor cDNA -- V. Biochemical Actions and Antihormones -- 15. Estrogen and Antiestrogen Regulation of Proliferation and Protein Synthesis of Human Breast Cancer Cells -- 16. An Estrogen Induced Protease in Breast Cancer: From Basic Research to Clinical Applications -- 17. Nuclear Acceptor Sites: Interaction with Estrogen-Versus Antiestrogen-Receptor Complexes -- 18. Antisteroid Hormones, Receptor Structure and Heat-Shock Protein MW 90,000 (hsp 90) -- VI. Pharmacological and Clinical Correlations -- 19. Neural Estrogen and Progestin Receptors and the Neurochemistry of Reproductive Behavior and Sexual Differentiation -- 20. Estrogen Actions on Endometrial Adenocarcinoma -- 21. Structural Features and Clinical Significance of Estrogen Receptors -- 22. The Role of the Ras Oncogene in Human Mammary Cancer -- Author Index