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Receptors, Steroid

"Receptors, Steroid" 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.

Proteins found usually in the cytoplasm or nucleus that specifically bind steroid hormones and trigger changes influencing the behavior of cells. The steroid receptor-steroid hormone complex regulates the transcription of specific genes.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Receptors, Steroid" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Receptors, Steroid" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 79 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2002 and 2008 and 2018
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.