Lessons to be learned from the androgen receptor

Androgens play a crucial role in several stages of male development. They act via an interaction with the androgen receptor, a ligand dependent transcription factor which belongs to the superfamily of nuclear receptors, including those for the other steroid hormones, the retinoids, the thyroid hormones, and a still growing number of orphan receptors [1, 2]. In the last decade, since the cloning of the human androgen receptor cDNA, our [...]