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SUBMITTER: Siegfried JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4001725 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Siegfried Jill M JM Stabile Laura P LP
Seminars in oncology 20131212 1
It is becoming increasingly clear that steroid hormones are involved in the biology of many organs outside the reproductive system. Evidence has been accumulating since the mid 1990s that the lung contains receptors for both estrogen and progesterone and that these hormones have some role in lung development, pulmonary inflammation, and lung cancer. The estrogen receptor β (ERβ) is the major ER expressed in lung tissues, while inflammatory cells capable of infiltrating the lung are reported to e ...[more]