Steroid hormone action /

Steroid hormone action /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : IRL Press, c1993.
Description:	xv, 210 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Frontiers in molecular biology
Subject:	Steroid hormones -- Physiological effect. Genetic regulation Steroid-binding proteins Steroids -- physiology Gene Expression Regulation Receptors, Steroid -- physiology Genetic regulation. Steroid-binding proteins. Steroid hormones -- Physiological effect.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1592006

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Other authors / contributors:	Parker, Malcolm G.
ISBN:	0199633932 (h'bk) : £40.00 ($60.00) 0199633924 (pbk.) : £25.00 ($37.50)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Extracellular steroid-binding proteins
2. Importance of steroidogenesis in specific hormone action
3. Overview of the steroid receptor superfamily of gene regulatory proteins
4. Role of heat-shock proteins in steroid receptor function
5. Nuclear hormone receptors as transcriptional activators
6. Repression of transcription by nuclear receptors
7. Structure and function of the steroid receptor zinc finger region
8. Mechanism of action of hormone antagonists
9. Mutations in steroid hormone receptors causing clinical disease
Index