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Membrane estrogen receptors are a group of receptors which bind estrogen. Unlike the estrogen receptor , a nuclear receptor which mediates its effects via genomic mechanisms, mERs are cell surface receptors which rapidly alter cell signaling via modulation of intracellular signaling cascades. Putative mERs include membrane-associated ERα and ERβ , GPER , GPRC6A, ER-X, ERx and Gq-mER.
The mERs have been reviewed.
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