Steroidogenesis in castration-resistant prostate cancer

M Shiota, S Endo, L Blas, N Fujimoto, M Eto - Urologic Oncology: Seminars …, 2023 - Elsevier
Castration resistance is in part attributable to aberrant activation of androgen receptor (AR)
signaling by the intracrine activation of androgen precursors derived from adrenal glands …

[HTML][HTML] Steroid hormone synthetic pathways in prostate cancer

EA Mostaghel - Translational andrology and urology, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
While androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) remains the primary treatment for metastatic
prostate cancer (PCa) since the seminal recognition of the disease as androgen-dependent …

Novel therapeutic strategies for castration resistant prostate cancer: inhibition of persistent androgen production and androgen receptor mediated signaling

A Molina, A Belldegrun - The Journal of urology, 2011 - Elsevier
PURPOSE:: Androgen receptor signaling remains essential for many prostate cancers that
have progressed despite androgen deprivation therapy. After medical or surgical castration …

Minireview: androgen metabolism in castration-resistant prostate cancer

N Sharifi - Molecular endocrinology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The decades-old terminology of androgen independence has been replaced in recent years
with castration-resistant prostate cancer. Biological and clinical evidence have together …

The 5α-androstanedione pathway to dihydrotestosterone in castration-resistant prostate cancer

N Sharifi - Journal of investigative medicine, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The survival and progression of prostate cancer are generally dependent on expression of
the androgen receptor (AR), as well as the availability of endogenous AR agonists …

The role of adrenal derived androgens in castration resistant prostate cancer

M Barnard, EA Mostaghel, RJ Auchus… - The Journal of steroid …, 2020 - Elsevier
Castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) remains androgen dependant despite castrate
levels of circulating testosterone following androgen deprivation therapy, the first line of …

Intratumoral De Novo Steroid Synthesis Activates Androgen Receptor in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer and Is Upregulated by Treatment with CYP17A1 …

C Cai, S Chen, P Ng, GJ Bubley, PS Nelson… - Cancer research, 2011 - AACR
Relapse of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) that occurs after androgen
deprivation therapy of primary prostate cancer can be mediated by reactivation of the …

Androgen receptor functions in castration-resistant prostate cancer and mechanisms of resistance to new agents targeting the androgen axis

X Yuan, C Cai, S Chen, Z Yu, SP Balk - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
The metabolic functions of androgen receptor (AR) in normal prostate are circumvented in
prostate cancer (PCa) to drive tumor growth, and the AR also can acquire new growth …

Molecular pathways: inhibiting steroid biosynthesis in prostate cancer

R Ferraldeschi, N Sharifi, RJ Auchus, G Attard - Clinical cancer research, 2013 - AACR
A significant proportion of castration-resistant prostate cancers (CRPC) remains driven by
ligand activation of the androgen receptor. Although the testes are the primary source of …

Androgens in prostate cancer: A tale that never ends

Z Hou, S Huang, Z Li - Cancer Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Androgens play an essential role in prostate cancer. Clinical treatments that target
steroidogenesis and the androgen receptor (AR) successfully postpone disease …