Expression of glucocorticoid receptor gene isoforms in corticotropin- secreting tumors

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1088-1093

  Dahia, Patricia L M ^a   Honegger, Jürgen ^b   Reincke, Martin ^c   Jacobs, Richard A ^a   Mirtella, Adriana ^a   Fahlbusch, Rudolf ^b   Besser, G Michael ^a   Chew, Shern L ^a   Grossman, Ashley B ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c Neurologische Klin Julius M   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030904953     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.4.1088     Document Type: Article

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