Advances in Molecular Research of Nuclear Receptors in Disease
A Special Issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067) belonging to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2025) | Viewed by 2974
Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nuclear receptors for steroid/thyroid hormones and fat-soluble vitamins play key roles in a wide variety of physiological events and facilitate processes of pathological events. Especially, in hormone-dependent tumors found in breast and prostate cancer patients, the significance of sex hormone receptors is widely accepted from bench-to-bed-side sciences. Pharmacologically, synthetic estrogens have been clinically successful to mitigate bone health impaired in osteoporotic patients. Alongside these diseases, other chronic diseases appear to be under the influence and control of nuclear receptor functions, but the molecular basis for the role of nuclear receptors largely remains elusive. In this Special Issue, any aspect of the current progress in medical research for nuclear receptor function and their ligands at molecular levels is welcome to update readers on nuclear receptor research.
Dr. Shigeaki Kato
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nuclear receptors
- steroid hormones
- fat-soluble vitamins
- cancer
- non-communicable diseases
- synthetic ligands
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