Download or read book Nuclear Receptors in Development written by Reshma Taneja and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb compilation of reviews from leading experts in the field of nuclear receptors, volume 16 in the Advances in Developmental Biology series covers the role of different nuclear receptor subfamilies in development, physiology and metabolism. This volume brilliantly reviews how genetic defects in the function of nuclear receptors leads to various developmental defects. Receptors discussed include: thyroid receptors, peroxisome proliferators activated receptors, and retinoic acid receptors. Additionaly, this volume offers an indespesable chapter on the orphan receptors Ftz-F1, COUPs, and RORs in embryonic and postnatal development. * Provides a compilation of reviews of several nuclear receptor subfamilies - such as TRs, PPARs, RARs, the orphan receptors COUP-TFs, RORs, and Ftz-F1 in embryonic and postnatal development. * Offers a detailed section on retinoid receptor signaling * Covers the role of co-repressors and co-activators in modulation of nuclear receptor functions

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Download or read book Nuclear Receptors Coregulators And Human Diseases written by Rakesh Kumar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as a treasure for all those who have an interest in nuclear receptor coregulators and human diseases. Written by experts in the field, each chapter provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on the physiologic and pathologic roles of coregulators in specific organ systems, giving biomedical students; basic and clinical researchers; and educators in diverse sub-specialties a thorough summary of the overall subject. Readers will be able to understand the important current information and views on specific coactivators and corepressors and their roles in the pathogenesis of human diseases in areas outside their own expertise or experience. A special emphasis is placed on the “classic” papers as well as perspectives on future directions for the field.

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Download or read book Progress in Oncology 2004 written by Vincent T. DeVita, Jr. and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume in this outstanding series of annual updates in oncology, Progress in Oncology 2004 addresses fifteen of the most important "hot topics" in the field. Under the careful direction of Drs. DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg, each volume in this exciting series presents concise summaries of the state of the art in cancer basic science and clinical application, written by 15 of the top researchers and clinicians in the world.As with all the volumes in the series, PIO 2004 covers critical issues in clinical cancer care and research in a scholarly though readable style. Chapters on advances in treatment and diagnosis, including DNA microarrays, growth factor receptors, new applications of thalidomide, and allografting in NHL review the state of the art in these emerging fields. Top experts provide timely overviews of focused ultrasound therapy, hormone therapy for prostate cancer, and CHOP and rituxin for DLCL. In a special surgery section, world-class authorities discuss approaches to rectal cancer. These and other rigorously referenced chapters make PIO 2004 an indispensable new oncology resource.

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Download or read book NR Coregulators and Human Diseases written by Rakesh Kumar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as a treasure for all those who have an interest in nuclear receptor coregulators and human diseases. Written by experts in the field, each chapter provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on the physiologic and pathologic roles of coregulators in specific organ systems, giving biomedical students; basic and clinical researchers; and educators in diverse sub-specialties a thorough summary of the overall subject. Readers will be able to understand the important current information and views on specific coactivators and corepressors and their roles in the pathogenesis of human diseases in areas outside their own expertise or experience. A special emphasis is placed on the ?classic? papers as well as perspectives on future directions for the field.

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