Specificity and sensitivity of glucocorticoid signaling in health and disease

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 545-556

  Cain, Derek W ^a   Cidlowski, John A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

glucocorticoid; glucocorticoid receptor; glucocorticoid signaling; hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; isoforms

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; DISEASES; HEALTH; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84940438914     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2015.04.007     Document Type: Review

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