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Therapeutic potential of serum and glucocorticoid inducible kinase inhibition.
Expert opinion on investigational drugs - 1 Jun 2013
Lang Florian, Voelkl Jakob
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INTRODUCTION: Expression of serum-and-glucocorticoid-inducible kinase-1 (SGK1) is low in most cells, but dramatically increases under certain pathophysiological conditions, such as glucocorticoid or mineralocorticoid excess, inflammation with TGFβ release, hyperglycemia, cell shrinkage and ischemia. SGK1 is activated by insulin and growth factors via phosphatidylinositide-3-kinase, 3-phosphoinositide-dependent...
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