Nuclear Receptors Current Concepts and Future Challenges /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bunce, Chris M. (Editor), Campbell, Moray J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Proteins and Cell Regulation ; 8
• Subjects: Medicine.; Endocrinology.; Oncology.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Cell Biology.; Animal Biochemistry.

In 1890 a case of myxedema was treated in Lisbon by the implantation of a sheep thyroid gland with the immediate improvement in the patient’s condition. A few years later, medications for the then ill-explained condition of the menopause included tablets made from cow ovaries. In the first quarter o...