Estrogenic Flavonoids: Structural Requirements for Biological Activity

Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 44-50

  Miksicek, Richard J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCONE DERIVATIVE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLAVANONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; FLAVONOL DERIVATIVE; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; BINDING COMPETITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CHALCONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FLAVONES; HELA CELLS; HUMAN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0028959192     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-208-43830     Document Type: Article

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