International union of pharmacology. LXVI. Orphan nuclear receptors

Pharmacological Reviews

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 798-836

  Benoit, Gérard ^a   Cooney, Austin ^b   Giguere, Vincent ^c   Ingraham, Holly ^d   Lazar, Mitch ^e   Muscat, George ^f   Perlmann, Thomas ^g   Renaud, Jean Paul ^h   Schwabe, John ⁱ   Sladek, Frances ^j   Tsai, Ming Jer ^b   Laudet, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^h NovAliX   (France)

ⁱ MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYTAMOXIFEN; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CONSTITUTIVE ANDROSTANE RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RELATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; FARNESOID X RECEPTOR; LIGAND; LIVER X RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NUCLEAR FACTOR; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; ORPHAN RECEPTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; PREGNANE X RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG TARGETING; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33751502151     PISSN: 00316997     EISSN: 15210081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/pr.58.4.10     Document Type: Review

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