Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Tamoxifen

"Tamoxifen" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

One of the SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS with tissue-specific activities. Tamoxifen acts as an anti-estrogen (inhibiting agent) in the mammary tissue, but as an estrogen (stimulating agent) in cholesterol metabolism, bone density, and cell proliferation in the ENDOMETRIUM.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Tamoxifen" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Tamoxifen" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
Related Networks
People
Explore
_
Similar Concepts
_
Top Journals 
_
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.