New Molecular Mechanisms of Estrogen Action and Their Impact on Future Perspectives in Estrogen Therapy
Contributors: Kenneth S. Korach (Editor); Alexander Hillisch (Editor); K.H. Fritzemeier (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9783540402503
Subjects: Pharmacology; Physiology; Gynecology & Obstetrics; Therapeutic use; Congresses; Science; Medical; Mechanism of action; Internal Medicine; Endocrinology & Metabolism; Life Sciences - General; Drug Discovery; Estrogen Receptor; Hormone Replacement Therary; Medical / Endocrinology & Metabolism; Steroid Hormones; Structure Biology; Anatomy; Estrogen
First sentence: Beginning in the late 1950s into the 1970s the laboratories of El-wood Jensen and Jack Gorski proposed a model by which the interaction of the receptor and 17-estradiol (E2) are involved in transducing the cellular effects of this hormone (Jensen and DeSombre 1973; Toft and Gorski 1966).