Nuclear Receptors

1. Nuclear Receptors an Introductory Overview
Chris M. Bunce, Moray J. Campbell

2. What does Evolution Teach us about Nuclear Receptors?
Gabriel Markov, FranÇois Bonneton, Vincent Laudet

3. Functions of Nuclear Receptors in Insect Development
David MartÍn

4. The Glucocorticoid Receptor
Robert H. Oakley, John A. Cidlowski

5. Estrogen Receptors: Their Actions and Functional Roles in Health and Disease
Stefan Nilsson, Jan-Åke Gustafsson

6. Androgen Receptor
James T. Dalton, Wenqing Gao

7. Thyroid Hormone Receptors
BjÖRn VennstrÖM, Hong Liu, Douglas Forrest

8. The Vitamin D Receptor (NR1I1)
Orla Maguire, Moray J. Campbell

9. Retinoic Acid Receptors
Audrey Cras, Fabien Guidez, Christine Chomienne

10. PPARs: Important Regulators in Metabolism and Inflammation
Linda M. Sanderson, Sander Kersten

11. Xenobiotic Receptors CAR and PXR
Curtis Klaassen, Hong Lu

12. Fxr
Yandong Wang, Weidong Chen, Xiaosong Chen, Wendong Huang

13. Physiological Functions of TR2 and TR4 Orphan Nuclear Receptor
Su Liu, Shaozhen Xie, Yi-fen Lee, Chawnshang Chang

14. Nuclear Receptors and ATP Dependent Chromatin Remodeling: A Complex Story
Craig J. Burd, Trevor K. Archer

15. Non-Genomic Action of Sex Steroid Hormones
Antimo Migliaccio, Gabriella Castoria, Ferdinando Auricchio

16. Ligand Regulation and Nuclear Receptor Action
Martin Hewison

17. New Insights to Nuclear Receptor Gene Regulation from Analysis of their Response Elements in Target Genes
Carsten Carlberg

18. Systems Biology: Towards Realistic and Useful Models of Molecular Networks
F.J. Bruggeman, A. Kolodkin, K. Rybakova, M. MonÉ, H.V. Westerhoff

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Biomedicine general, Cell Biology, Endocrinology, Animal Biochemistry, Oncology