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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2012 Nov;23(4):821–828. doi: 10.1016/j.pmr.2012.08.003

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Molecular action of glucocorticoids and dissociative steroids. Classic pharmacologic glucocorticoids have anti-inflammatory, membrane fluidity, and glucocorticoid response element (GRE)-mediated transcriptional activities. Dissociative steroids retain membrane and anti-inflammatory subactivities associated with efficacy, but do not retain the GRE-mediated transcriptional activities associated with side-effect profiles. GR, glucocorticoid receptor.