Blockade of glucocorticoid receptor binding and inhibition of dexamethasone-induced muscle atrophy in the rat by RU38486, a potent glucocorticoid antagonist

Endocrinology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 375-380

  Konagaya, M ^a,b,c   Bernard, P A ^a,b   Max, S R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; GLUCOCORTICOSTEROID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTOXICATION; MUSCLE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOKINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEROID MYOPATHY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE H 3;

ANIMAL; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA; ESTRENES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; MIFEPRISTONE; MUSCLES; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0022587698     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-119-1-375     Document Type: Article

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