- glucocorticoid
- A steroid hormone that regulates gene expression in higher animals.
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glucocorticoid — GLUCOCORTICOÍD, glucocorticoizi, s.m. (biol.) Hormon secretat de glanda corticosuprarenală, cu rol în reglarea metabolismului glucidelor, lipidelor şi protidelor, precum şi în cel al apei şi al electroliţilor. – Din fr. glucocorticoïde. Trimis de … Dicționar Român
Glucocorticoid — vgl. Glukokortikoid … Das Wörterbuch medizinischer Fachausdrücke
Glucocorticoid — Chemical structure of cortisol, a glucocorticoid … Wikipedia
Glucocorticoid — Glucocorticoide, veraltet Glukokortikoide, zählen zu den Corticosteroiden, einer Klasse von Steroidhormonen aus der Nebennierenrinde. Die natürlich vorkommenden Glucocorticoide sind Abkömmlinge des Progesterons. Zu diesen zählen Cortisol und… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Glucocorticoid — A hormone that predominantly affects the metabolism of carbohydrates and, to a lesser extent, fats and proteins (and has other effects). Glucocorticoids are made in the outside portion (the cortex) of the adrenal gland and chemically classed as… … Medical dictionary
Glucocorticoid deficiency 1 — is an adrenocortical failure characterized by low levels of plasma cortisol despite high levels of plasma ACTH.External links* … Wikipedia
Glucocorticoid receptor — Nuclear receptor subfamily 3, group C, member 1 (glucocorticoid receptor) Crystallographic structures of the glucocorticoid receptor DNA binding domain (DBD, left, PDB 1R4O bound to DNA) and ligand bindin … Wikipedia
Glucocorticoid Response Element — Als Response Element oder Hormone Responsive Element (HRE, deut. hormonempfindlicher Bereich) bezeichnet man eine kurze Nukleotidsequenz im Bereich eines Promotors auf der DNA, die als Bindungsstelle für nukleäre Hormonrezeptoren dient. Diese… … Deutsch Wikipedia
glucocorticoid receptor — noun 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… … Wiktionary
glucocorticoid — noun Date: 1950 any of a group of corticosteroids (as cortisol) that are involved especially in carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism, that are anti inflammatory and immunosuppressive, and that are used widely in medicine (as in the… … New Collegiate Dictionary
glucocorticoid — /glooh koh kawr ti koyd /, n. Biochem. any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti inflammatory activity. [1945 50; GLUCO + CORTIC + OID; cf. CORTICOSTEROID] * * * … Universalium
