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A novel method for monitoring glucocorticoid-induced changes of the glucocorticoid receptor in kidney transplant recipients.
Transplant immunology - 1 Mar 2009
Chen Yan, Burckart Gilbert J, Shah Tariq, Pravica Vera, Hutchinson Ian V
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INTRODUCTION: Initial high dose glucocorticosteroid (GC) treatment of transplant recipients induces changes in the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) that may affect the mode of action of the drug. We developed a TaqMan one-step RT-PCR quantification method to investigate the effect of bolus GC treatment on the structure of the GR complex by measuring the levels of GR isoform expression and FK binding protein 5 (FKBP5)...
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