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Implementation of In Vitro Drug Resistance Assays: Maximizing the Potential for Uncovering Clinically Relevant Resistance Mechanisms
Published on: December 9, 2015
Hormone resistance at the clinical level
1Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Meyer Children's Hospital, Rambam Medical Center, and Rappaport Family Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. z_hochberg@rambam.health.gov.il
Abstract:
This presentation introduces clinical aspects of hormone resistance through a number of case studies that illustrate how molecular defects at various steps in hormone production, signaling, or responsiveness can produce disease in humans. The presentation also shows how careful phenotyping of such patients has triggered decades of translational research.
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