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Original Articles

Investigation on critical structural motifs of ligands for triggering glucocorticoid receptor nuclear migration through molecular docking simulations

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Pages 1214-1231 | Received 09 Aug 2015, Accepted 15 Jul 2015, Published online: 14 Aug 2015

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