The glucocorticoid receptor is overexpressed in malignant adrenocortical tumors

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4591-4599

  Tacon, Lyndal J ^a,b   Soon, Patsy S ^a,c   Gill, Anthony J ^a,b   Chou, Angela S ^b   Clarkson, Adele ^b   Botling, Johan ^d   Stalberg, Peter L H ^d   Skogseid, Britt M ^d   Robinson, Bruce G ^a,b   Sidhu, Stanley B ^a,b   Clifton Bligh, Roderick J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; RNA;

ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NR3C1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; TUMOR VOLUME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 70449122727     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2009-0546     Document Type: Article

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