Endocrine Abstracts

Cellular sensitivity to circulating glucocorticoids is critical and is principally determined by the level of glucocorticoid receptor (GR). GR expression is most potently regulated by glucocorticoids themselves, although the mechanism is unknown. The rat GR gene encodes at least eleven alternate and untranslated exons 1, eight of which lie in a 3kb CpG island close to exon 2. We have recently shown that individual exons 1 are subject to tissue specific expression and regulatio...