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Androgen receptor isoforms AR-A and AR-B display functional differences in cultured human bone cells and genital skin fibroblasts.
Steroids - 1 Dec 2003
Liegibel Ute M, Sommer Ulrike, Boercsoek Irma, Hilscher Ulrike, Bierhaus Angelika, Schweikert Hans Udo, Nawroth Peter, Kasperk Christian
Abstract excerpt
Two isoforms of the androgen receptor (AR-A and AR-B), differing by a lack of the first 187 amino acids in the NH2-terminal transactivation domain of AR-A, are expressed in connective tissue and bone. Transient transfections of normal human osteoblastic cells (HOB) and of genital skin fibroblasts defective in AR (GSF-540) were utilized to compare the functional properties of AR isoforms in mesenchymal tissues....
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