Reply to Thornton and Carroll: Lamprey possess a highly specific corticosteroid signaling system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Close, David A ^a   Yun, Sang Seon ^b   McCormick, Stephen D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Kunsan National University   (South Korea)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTEROID RECEPTOR; CORTODOXONE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

BINDING AFFINITY; BLOOD SAMPLING; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENDOCRINOLOGY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LAMPREY; LETTER; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; VERTEBRATE;

PETROMYZONTIDAE;

EID: 79551656773     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015112108     Document Type: Letter

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