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Vascular cell signaling by membrane estrogen receptors

Subjects: “…Hormones. 111997…”
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Vitamin D endocrine system basics /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: What is a vitamin? -- What is a hormone? -- Vitamin D biology fundamentals -- Calcium homeostasis -- Classical biological actions of vitamin D -- Vitamin D and endocrine system -- Key discoveries in the field -- Kidney as an endocrine gland for hormone-D -- Vitamin D receptor -- VDR target organs -- Introduction to hormone D.…”
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Vitamin D endocrine system mechanisms to produce biological responses /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Optimal ligand shapes -- Modes of action of hormone-D -- Shape of ligand for VDRNUC -- Three dimensional shape of the VDR -- Shape of ligand for DBP -- DBP structure domains A, B, C -- Shape of ligand for rapid responses -- Steroid receptor superfamily -- Steroid receptor domains -- Structural organization of VDR gene, mRNA and protein -- Model of steroid hormone mode of action -- Model of hormone-D transcriptional activation -- Determination of a VDR mediated genomic response -- Examples of rapid responses -- Caveolae membrane and rapid responses -- VDR knock out mouse and rapid responses.…”
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Vitamin D endocrine system VDR binding, nutrition and drugs development /

Table of Contents: “…-- World-wide vitamin D nutrition status -- Vitamin D status and intestinal calcium absorption -- New research frontiers -- Drug development -- Alopecia - Analogs of hormone D are effective for psoriasis -- hormone-D activates the innate immune system -Vitamin D in human disease states.…”
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Science and social context the regulation of recombinant bovine growth hormone in North America / by Mills, Lisa Nicole, 1967-

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The growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-1 axis in health and disease

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Lack of growth hormone leads to short stature and excess leads to gigantism or acromegaly -- IGF-1 is the main mediator of these effects -- Both hormones have similar but different effects on protein, lipid and carbohydrate metabolism as well as bone development and growth -- The IGF system plays a role in cancer progression.…”
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Reproductive and hormonal aspects of systemic autoimmune diseases

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Androgen deprivation therapy : an essential guide for prostate cancer patients and their loved ones / by Wassersug, Richard J. (Richard Joel), 1946-, Walker, Lauren M., Robinson, John W.

Subjects: “…Prostate Cancer Hormone therapy.…”
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Messengers of sex hormones, biomedicine and feminism / by Roberts, Celia, 1968-

Subjects: “…Hormones, Sex.…”
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Plant growth and development hormones and environment / by Srivastava, L. M. (Lalit Mohan), 1932-

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Peptides in energy balance and obesity

Subjects: “…Peptide hormones.…”
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Nuclear receptors transcriptional functions /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Introduction to transcription factors -- Nuclear receptors as ligand-dependent transcription factors -- Classes of nuclear receptor -- Nuclear receptor ligands: agonists and antagonists -- Nuclear receptor phylogeny -- Nuclear receptor isoforms -- The nuclear receptor DNA-binding domain -- Hormone response elements -- The nuclear receptor ligand-binding domain -- Nuclear receptor mechanism -- Subcellular localization of nuclear receptors -- The effect of ligand binding -- Nuclear receptor coregulators -- Initial discoveries of coregulators -- The SRC/p160 coregulator family -- Nuclear receptor-coregulator interaction motifs -- Histone acetylation and chromatin structure -- The Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas (NURSA) -- Chromatin immunoprecipitation as a tool in nuclear receptor mechanism -- Functional differences between type I and type II nuclear receptors -- The coregulator exchange -- DNA-binding independent functions -- Transrepression -- The role of kinases.…”
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Nuclear receptors superfamily structural insights into function /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Signal transduction and transcriptional regulation -- Cofactor binding and transcriptional activation -- The modular organization of nuclear hormone receptors -- The DNA binding domain -- The ligand binding domain -- Sequence/structure to function -- The oligomeric state -- Allosteric control through post-translational modifications -- Communication pathways in NRs -- Ligand binding: specificity and adaptability -- The retinoid receptors: RXR and RAR -- Structural adaptability in the ligand-binding pocket of the ecdysone hormone receptor -- Binding to coactivators and corepressors: the signature motifs -- Ligand dependent (de)activation: agonists and antagonists -- Estrogen receptor -- The vitamin D receptor.…”
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Hormones and Pharmaceuticals Generated by Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Transport in Water and Soil / by Pruden, Amy

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Vitamin D and prostate cancer

Subjects: “…Hormones. 111887…”
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The effects of estrogen on brain function

Table of Contents: “…Gibbs -- The short-lived effects of hormone therapy on cognitive function / Eva Hogervorst -- Clinical data from structural and functional brain imaging on estrogen's effects in the central nervous system / Daniel H.S. …”
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How the endocrine system works / by Neal, J. Matthew

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Can we prevent type 1 diabetes?

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Endocrinology of parturition

Subjects: “…Hormones. 112447…”
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Leptin hormonal functions, dysfunctions and clinical uses /

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