Is There an Answer? Are flavonoids agonists or antagonists of the natural hormone 17β-estradiol?

IUBMB Life

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 241-244

  Marino, Maria ^a   Galluzzo, Paola ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAIDZEIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FLAVONOID; GENISTEIN; NARINGENIN; QUERCETIN; ANTIESTROGEN; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; RECEPTOR BINDING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; DIET; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN;

EID: 45549086233     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.34     Document Type: Note

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