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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bock, Gregory
• Goode, Jamie

Titel

Non-reproductive actions of sex steroids [electronic resource]

Link zum Volltext

• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "Symposium on Non-Reproductive Actions of Sex Steroids, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 30 August-1 September 1994"--Contents p. v.
• Editors: Gregory R. Bock and Jamie A. Goode.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• NON-REPRODUCTIVE ACTIONS OF SEX STE R O I DS; Contents; Participants; Chairman's introduction; Transcriptional control by steroid hormones: the role of chromatin; Non-genomic mechanisms of action of steroid hormones; General discussion I; Oestrogens and the structural and functional plasticity of neurons: implications for memory, ageing and neurodegenerative processes; Actions of sex steroids on behaviours beyond rep rod uctive reflexes; Neurosteroids: synthesis and functions in thecentral and peripheral nervoussystems; General discussion II
• Oestrogen synthesis, oestrogen metabolism and functional oestrogen receptors in bovine aortic endothelial cellsOestradiol inhibition of vascular myointimal proliferation following immune, chemical and mechanical injury; Hormone replacement therapy and cardiovascular disease: the case for a randomized controlled trial; General discussion Ill; Symptoms related to the menopause and sex steroid treatments; Sex steroids, cytokines and the bone marrow: new concepts on the pathogenesis of osteoporosis; Sex steroids and the immune system; Steroidal regulation of cell cycle progression
• Surprises with antiprogestins: novel mechanisms of progesterone receptor actionOestrogen- and anti-oestrogen-regulated genes in human breast cancer; Human prostate cancer: a direct role for oestrogens; Final d iscu ss ion; Index of contributors; Subject index
• Prominent clinicians and researchers from diverse disciplines discuss the basic cell and molecular biology of steroid action and sex steroids' effects on the nervous and immune systems. Provides an integrated evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of hormone replacement therapy.
• English