Recent advances in understanding Cushing disease: resistance to glucocorticoid negative feedback and somatic USP8 mutations
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Cushing's disease is a rare disease with a characteristic phenotype due to significant hypercortisolism driven by over-secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone and to high morbidity and mortality if untreated. It is caused by a corticotroph adenoma of the pituitary, but the exact mechanisms leading to tumorigenesis are not clear. Recent advances in molecular biology such as the discovery of somatic mutations of the ubiquitin-specific peptidase 8 ( USP8) gene allow new insights into the pathogenesis, which could be translated into exciting and much-needed therapeutic applications.
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