Estrogen Signaling and Cardiovascular Disease
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Estrogen signaling and cardiovascular disease.
Estrogen has pleiotropic effects on the cardiovascular system. The mechanisms by which estrogen confers these pleiotropic effects are undergoing active investigation. Until a decade ago, all estrogen signaling was thought to occur by estrogen binding to nuclear estrogen receptors (estrogen receptor-α and estrogen receptor-β), which bind to DNA and function as ligand-activated transcription fact...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0009-7330,1524-4571
DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.110.236687