Low level of glucocorticoid receptor messenger ribonucleic acid in pituitary adenomas manifesting Cushing's disease with resistance to a high dose-dexamethasone suppression test

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 301-306

  Mu, Yi Ming ^a   Takayanagi, Ryoichi ^a   Imasaki, Kyosuke ^a   Ohe, Kenji ^a   Ikuyama, Shoichiro ^a   Yanase, Toshihiko ^a   Nawata, Hajime ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ACTINS; ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031751514     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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