Estrogens are powerful hormones important for the formation and function of the nervous, reproductive and cardiovascular systems. Xenoestrogens are environmental chemicals—both industrial pollutants ...
Scientists have created zebrafish mutants in four different receptors -- found inside or on the surface of cells -- that respond to estrogens, and they have used the mutants to help unravel a novel ...
The heart, an indispensable organ with fascinating development biology, is the first organ to become functional in the developing mammalian embryo. Cardiac lipid metabolism is intricately connected ...