A polymorphism in the glucocorticoid receptor gene may be associated with an increased sensitivity to glucocorticoids in vivo

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 144-151

  Huizenga, Nannette A T M ^a   Koper, Jan W ^a   De Lange, Pieter ^a   Pols, Huibert A P ^a   Stolk, Ronald P ^b   Burger, Huibert ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^b   Brinkmann, Albert O ^a   De Jong, Frank H ^a   Lamberts, Steven W J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; INSULIN RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANIMALS; ASPARAGINE; CELLS, CULTURED; COHORT STUDIES; COS CELLS; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 15144360854     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.1.144     Document Type: Article

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