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. 2020 Jan 22;10:3017. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.03017

Table 2.

Salient technical tools available to discriminate steroid receptor-specific pathways.

Progesterone receptor Glucocorticoid receptor Membrane progestin receptors (mPR) Progesterone receptor membrane components (PGRMC)
Selective agonists 20α-dihydrodydrogesterone (DHD) (89) Dexamethasone, betamethasone (15), ZK209614 (90) progesterone conjugated to BSA (50)
Antagonist non-selective: RU-486
selective: ZK98299 (91), Ulipristal acetate (92), Org31710 (93) selective: RU-43044 (94)
Mouse models for cell specific depletion Prfl/fl (21) Grfl/fl (9, 10) Pgrmc1fl/fl and Pgrmc2fl/fl (30)