Ancient Elephant Sharks Offer Clues into the Unseen Roles of Hormone (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Ancient Elephant Sharks Offer Clues into the Unseen Roles of Hormone (1 of 1)

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An image of an elephant shark. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jun. 4, 2019, issue of Science Signaling, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Katsu at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan; and colleagues was titled, "Transcriptional activation of elephant shark mineralocorticoid receptor by corticosteroids, progesterone, and spironolactone."

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Dr. Susumu Hyodo at University of Tokyo

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