Nuclear Receptor Coactivators: Essential Players for Steroid Hormone Action in the Brain and in Behaviour

Overview

Journal J Neuroendocrinol

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 2009 Feb 12

PMID 19207820

Citations 20

Authors

M J Tetel

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Abstract

Steroid hormones act both in the brain and throughout the body to influence behaviour and physiology. Many of these effects of steroid hormones are elicited by transcriptional events mediated by their respective receptors. A variety of cell culture studies reveal that nuclear receptor coactivators are critical for modulating steroid receptor-dependent transcription. Thus, in addition to the availability of the hormone and the expression of its receptor, nuclear receptor coactivators are essential for steroid-dependent transactivation of genes. This review discusses the mounting evidence indicating that nuclear receptor coactivators are critical for modulating steroid hormone action in the brain and in the regulation of behaviour.

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