Nuclear receptors are ligand activated transcription factors that control numerous biological functions. Consequently, altering activity of these receptors is proposed, and indeed documented, to affect many physiological and pathological conditions in experimental animals and humans. Thus, nuclear receptors have become a major target in the effort to treat numerous diseases.

This book will shed light on and emphasize intricate processes involved in designing as well as discovering physiological and pharmacological modulators of these important proteins. World-renowned scientists will share with the reader their professional expertise and extensive experience acquired through decades working with nuclear receptors. Chapters address the various means and consequences of modulating nuclear receptor activity will be presented and discussed. These modulators cover a wide span of moieties ranging from synthetic chemicals to natural products. In addition, the classification of these chemicals ranges from pan agonists to selective agonists and inverse agonists to antagonists. They also include proteolytic means to obliterate the receptor in the event that modulating its activity through canonical pharmacological agents becomes less effective and/or less desirable due to anticipated or experienced toxicities. Modulation of receptor activity may also take place in the absence of a ligand or through manipulating the structure of the receptor itself by controlling posttranslational events.

1. Molecular Pharmacology of the Youngest Member of the Nuclear Receptor Family: The Mineralocorticoid Receptor

2. A Simple Method for Visual Assessment and Quantification of Altered Subcellular Localization of Nuclear Receptors
3. Multifaceted Effects of Ligand on Nuclear Receptor Mobility
4. Chemical Considerations in Discovery of Receptor Modulators
5. Structure-Based Design of Estrogen-Related Receptors Modulators
6. PPAR and d ligand design - Honing the traditional empirical method with a more holistic overview
7. Pregnane X Receptor: understanding its function and activity at the molecular level
8. Ligand Design for the Vitamin D Receptor
9. What Makes a Good Antagonist: Lessons Learned from the Estrogen and Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors
10. Design of Novel PPAR agonist for Neurodegenerative Disease
11. Functional bioassays lithograph ligand reflections in the PPARalpha sphere
12. Computational applications on Food Contact Chemicals as Nuclear Receptors binders
13. Alternation of Nuclear Hormone Receptor Signaling by Antiviral Drugs
14. Retinoic acid-related orphan receptor (ROR) inverse agonists: potential therapeutic strategies for multiple inflammatory diseases
15. Therapeutic Strategies to Target Activating Estrogen Receptor a Mutation
16. Androgen Receptors in the Pathology of Disease
17. Bilirubin: A Ligand of the PPAR Nuclear Receptor
18. Nuclear Receptor Ligands in Flavivirus Infection Control
19. Use of Nanotechnology to Improve 15d-PGJ2 Immunomodulatory Activities
20.Ligand-independent Activation of PPARs
21. PPAR Modulation Through Posttranslational Modification Control
22. Developing Inhibitors to the Amino-Terminus Domains of Steroid Hormone Receptors
23. Redirecting the cellular waste disposal machinery to target transcription.