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Assessment of SNPs associated with the human glucocorticoid receptor in primary open-angle glaucoma and steroid responders.
Molecular vision - 3 Apr 2010
Fingert John H, Alward Wallace L, Wang Kai, Yorio Thomas, Clark Abbot F
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: While chronic glucocorticoid (GC) therapy leads to ocular hypertension in about one third of individuals, almost all primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients show this response and are called "steroid responders." Two differentially spliced isoforms of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), GRalpha and GRbeta, regulate GC responsiveness in trabecular meshwork (TM) cells. GRbeta acts as a dominant negative...
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