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A degrading solution to pollution

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Environmental pollutants such as dioxins affect human health. It now seems that dioxins exert their effect by forming atypical enzyme complexes that mediate the breakdown of steroid-hormone receptors.

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Figure 1: Dioxins and the degradation of the oestrogen receptor (ERα).

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