An ACTH-producing small cell lung cancer expresses aberrant glucocorticoid receptor transcripts from a normal gene

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 175-181

  Parks, Lee L ^a   Turney, Maxine K ^a   Detera Wadleigh, Sevilla ^b   Kovacs, William J ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Corticotropin secretion ; Ectopic ACTH syndrome; Glucocorticoid; Lung neoplasms secretion ; Receptors; Small cell secretion

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; COSMID; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR GENE; RNA SPLICING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; DNA; HUMANS; INTRONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032566133     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(98)00107-5     Document Type: Article

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