A short overview of its mechanisms of action and clinical uses at the end of 1996

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 828, Issue , 1997, Pages 47-58

  Baulieu, E E ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGESTAGEN; DRUG RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; ONAPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; ABORTIVE AGENT; HORMONE; HORMONE ANTAGONIST; MENSTRUATION INDUCING AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTRACEPTION; DRUG DNA INTERACTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; UTERUS MYOMA; ABORTION, DRUG INDUCED; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER; CHEMISTRY; CONTRACEPTIVE MODE OF ACTION; DISEASES; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCOITAL; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCONCEPTION; INDUCED ABORTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; RU-486; TREATMENT;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS; ABORTION, DRUG INDUCED; ABORTION, INDUCED; BIOLOGY; CANCER; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE MODE OF ACTION; DISEASES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCOITAL; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCONCEPTION; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HORMONES; LITERATURE REVIEW; NEOPLASMS; PHYSIOLOGY; RU-486; TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, SYNTHETIC; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION-INDUCING AGENTS; MIFEPRISTONE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE;

EID: 0031587190     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48523.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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