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Contact: Cliff Despres
Cliff.Despres@utsouthwestern.edu
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UT Southwestern Medical Center
Caption: Researchers led by Dr. David Mangelsdorf, chairman of pharmacology, helped create the first "encyclopedia" of an entire superfamily of nuclear receptors - proteins that turn genes on and off throughout the body - and discovered that certain receptors form networks and interact to regulate disease states and physiology in two main areas, reproduction and nutrient metabolism.
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