Regulation of the cytosolic sulfotransferases by nuclear receptors

Drug Metabolism Reviews

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-33

  Runge Morris, Melissa ^a   Kocarek, Thomas A ^a   Falany, Charles N ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive androstane receptor; Estrogen related receptor; Farnesoid X receptor; Liver X receptor; Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor; Pregnane X receptor; Retinoid related orphan receptor; SULT; Vitamin D receptor

Indexed keywords

ALITRETINOIN; BILE ACID; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL SULFATE; CIPROFIBRATE; CLOFIBRATE; CONSTITUTIVE ANDROSTANE RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RELATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; GEMFIBROZIL; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PREGNANE X RECEPTOR; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR ALPHA; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; RIFAMPICIN; SULFOTRANSFERASE; SULFOTRANSFERASE 1A1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR; XANTHOHUMOL; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

CANCER INHIBITION; CELL FUNCTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CYTOSOL; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SULFOTRANSFERASES; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 84872742547     PISSN: 03602532     EISSN: 10979883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03602532.2012.748794     Document Type: Review

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