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glucocorticoid receptors

glucocorticoid receptors is the plural of glucocorticoid receptor.

Meaning of glucocorticoid receptor

Noun

glucocorticoid receptor (plural glucocorticoid receptors)

  1. A protein found in multiple forms within cells, which binds glucocorticoids and subsequently influences gene transcription.
    • The cellular site of binding of dexamethasone by specific glucocorticoid receptors in cultured hepatoma cells was investigated with the use of certain mercurials.1972, B. B. Levinson, J. D. Baxter, G. G. Rousseau, G. M. Tomkins, “Cellular site of glucocorticoid-receptor complex formation.”, in Science, 175, no. 18 14 January 1972: 189-190
    Synonyms:
    GCCR, GCR, GR, GRL

Questions about glucocorticoid receptors

What is glucocorticoid receptors the plural of?
Glucocorticoid receptors is the plural of glucocorticoid receptor.

Words near glucocorticoid receptors in the dictionary

  1. glucoconvallatoxoloside
  2. glucocoroglaucigenin
  3. glucocorotoxigenin
  4. glucocorticoid
  5. glucocorticoid receptor
  6. glucocorticoid receptors
  7. glucocorticoidal
  8. glucocorticoids
  9. glucocorticosteroid
  10. glucocorticosteroidogenesis
  11. glucocorticosteroids

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