Research Catalog

Title

Non-reproductive actions of sex steroids.

Publication

Chichester ; New York : Wiley, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Bock, Gregory.
• Goode, Jamie.
• Symposium on Non-Reproductive Actions of Sex Steroids (1994 : Ciba Foundation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95800755

Description

ix, 307 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 191

Uniform Title

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 191.

Subjects

• Congress
• Steroids > physiology
• Gonadal Steroid Hormones > physiology
• Hormones, Sex > Physiological effect > Congresses

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "Symposium on Non-Reproductive Actions of Sex Steroids, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 30 August-1 September 1994"--Contents p.
• Editors: Gregory R. Bock and Jamie A. Goode.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction / E. E. Baulieu -- Transcriptional control by steroid hormones: the role of chromatin / M. Truss, R. Candau, S. Chavez and M. Beato -- Non-genomic mechanisms of action of steroid hormones / E. E. Baulieu and P. Robel -- Oestrogens and the structural and functional plasticity of neurons: implications for memory, ageing and neurodegenerative processes / B. S. McEwen, E. Gould, M. Orchinik, N. G. Weiland and C. S. Woolley -- Actions of sex steroids on behaviours beyond reproductive reflexes / C. A. Priest and D. W. Pfaff -- Neurosteroids: synthesis and functions in the central and peripheral nervous systems / M. Schumacher and E. E. Baulieu -- Oestrogen synthesis, oestrogen metabolism and functional oestrogen receptors in bovine aortic endothelial cells / F. Bayard, S. Clamens, G. Delsol, N. Blaes, A. Maret and J.-C. Faye --
• Oestradiol inhibition of vascular myointimal proliferation following immune, chemical and mechanical injury / M. L. Foegh, Y. Zhao, M. Farhat and P. W. Ramwell -- Hormone replacement therapy and cardiovascular disease: the case for a randomized controlled trial / M. R. Vickers, T. W. Meade and H. C. Wilkes -- Symptoms related to the menopause and sex steroid treatments / T. Backstrom -- Sex steroids, cytokines and the bone marrow: new concepts on the pathogenesis of osteoporosis / S. C. Manolagas, T. Bellido and R. L. Jilka -- Sex steroids and the immune system / H. S. Fox -- Steroidal regulation of cell cycle progression / R. L. Sutherland, J. A. Hamilton, K. J. E. Sweeney, C. K. W. Watts and E. A. Musgrove -- Surprises with antiprogestins: novel mechanisms of progesterone receptor action / K. B. Horwitz, C. A. Sartorius, A. R. Hovland, T. A. Jackson, S. D. Groshong, L. Tung and G. S. Takimoto -- Oestrogen- and anti-oestrogen-regulated genes in human breast cancer / H. Rochefort --
• Human prostate cancer: a direct role for oestrogens / L. A. M. Castagnetta and G. Carruba.

ISBN

0471955132 :

LCCN

95006957

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries