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Vitamins and Hormones Editor-in-chief Gerald Litwack (Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United StatesbrEmeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States)

Vitamins and Hormones By Editor-in-chief Gerald Litwack (Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United StatesbrEmeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States)

Summary

Steroids are of interest to a broad range of endocrinologists, cell biologists and biochemists. This volume of reviews includes studies of structure, function, and regulation of steroid production and action.

Vitamins and Hormones Summary

Vitamins and Hormones: Steroids: Volume 49 by Editor-in-chief Gerald Litwack (Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United StatesbrEmeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States)

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 cross-section of endocrinologist, cell biologists, and biochemists. Reviews include studies of structure, function, and regulation of steroid production and action. Thus, Vitamins and Hormones continues to publish cutting-edge reviews of interest to endocrinologists and biochemists. Others will increasingly turn to this continuing series for comprehensive reviews by leading researchers in this and related disciplines.

About Editor-in-chief Gerald Litwack (Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United StatesbrEmeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States)

Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)

Table of Contents

B.F. Luisi, J.W.R. Schwabe, and L.P. Freedman, The Steroid/Nuclear Receptors: From Three Dimensional Structure to Complex Function.S.S. Simons, Jr. , Function/Activity of Specific Amino Acids in Glucocorticoid Receptors.P.C. White, Genetic Diseases of Steroid Metabolism.D.R. Joseph, Structure, Function and Regulation of Androgen-Binding Protein/Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin.T.K. Ross, H.D. Darwish, and H.F. Deluca, Molecular Biology of Vitamin D Acation.M. Pfahlr, R. Apfel, I. Bendik, A. Fanjul, G. Graupner, M.-O. Lee, N. La-Vista, X.-P. Lu, J. Piedrafita, A. Ortiz-Caseda, G. Salbert, and X.-K. Zhang, Nuclear Retinoid Receptors and Their Mechanism of Action.J. Lindzey, M.V. Kumar, M. Grossman, C. Young, and D.J. Tindall, Molecular Mechanisms of Androgen Action.J.T. Isaacs, Role of Androgens in Prostatic Cancer.

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GOR013563330
9780127098494
0127098496
Vitamins and Hormones: Steroids: Volume 49 by Editor-in-chief Gerald Litwack (Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United StatesbrEmeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States)
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