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Designer estrogen: An engineered drug that possesses some, but not all, of the actions of estrogen. Designer estrogens are selective estrogen-receptor modulators (SERMs). For example, raloxifene (trade name Evista) is classified as a SERM because it prevents bone loss (like estrogen) and lowers serum cholesterol (like estrogen) but (unlike estrogen) does not stimulate the endometrial lining of the uterus.
Heart disease, dementia, depression, cancer. Today few women make it through their lifetimes without suffering from at least one of these diseases. But medical experts ...
The complex (left) of the receptor and an estrogen blocker fails to alter gene expression in any cell; the receptor complex (right ...
In the past several years, a number of artificial estrogens have been developed to provide some of the benefits of estrogen replacement therapy while avoiding some of the ...
What's to Come in Medicine. Medical predictions for the first decade of the new millennium include: A better understanding of estrogen's role in heart disease
— UCLA experts have located the initial proof that a particular sort of estrogen can guard the brain from degeneration but not boost the possibility for estrogen-induced ...