Expression of the glucocorticoid receptor in the human adrenal cortex

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-10

  Paust, H J ^a   Loeper, S ^a   Else, T ^a,b   Bamberger, A M ^a   Papadopoulos, G ^a   Pankoke, D ^a   Saeger, W ^c   Bamberger, Christoph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adrenal cortex; Glucocorticoid receptor

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADRENAL CORTEX; CELL LINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; ZONA RETICULARIS;

EID: 32244440257     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-873007     Document Type: Article

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