Steroids /

Steroids is a thematic volume from the classic Academic Press series, Vitamins and Hormones. Gerald Litwack, the new editor of this prestigious serial, brings together leading contributors to the study of steroids. These structurally and functionally complex molecules are of interest to a broad cros...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Litwack, Gerald
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1994.
Series:Vitamins and hormones ; v. 49.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The steroid/nuclear receptors : from three-dimensional structure to complex function / Ben F. Luisi, John W.R. Schwabe and Leonard P. Freedman
  • Function/activity of specific amino acids in glucocorticoid receptors / S. Stoney Simons, Jr.
  • Genetic diseases of steroid metabolism / Perrin C. White
  • Structure, function and regulation of androgen-binding protein/sex hormone-binding globulin / David R. Joseph
  • Molecular biology of vitamin D action / Troy K. Ross, Hisham M. Darwish and Hector F. DeLuca
  • Nuclear retinoid receptors and their mechanism of action / Magnus Pfahl [and others]
  • Molecular mechanisms of androgen action / Jonathan Lindzey [and others]
  • Role of androgens in prostatic cancer / John T. Isaacs.