Prostate zones and cancer: lost in transition?

A Ali, A Du Feu, P Oliveira, A Choudhury… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Localized prostate cancer shows great clinical, genetic and environmental heterogeneity;
however, prostate cancer treatment is currently guided solely by clinical staging, serum PSA …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and targeting prostate cancer cell heterogeneity and plasticity

DG Tang - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a prevalent malignancy that occurs primarily in old males. Prostate
tumors in different patients manifest significant inter-patient heterogeneity with respect to …

Dissecting the immune suppressive human prostate tumor microenvironment via integrated single-cell and spatial transcriptomic analyses

T Hirz, S Mei, H Sarkar, Y Kfoury, S Wu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The treatment of low-risk primary prostate cancer entails active surveillance only, while high-
risk disease requires multimodal treatment including surgery, radiation therapy, and …

MYC drives aggressive prostate cancer by disrupting transcriptional pause release at androgen receptor targets

X Qiu, N Boufaied, T Hallal, A Feit, A de Polo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract c-MYC (MYC) is a major driver of prostate cancer tumorigenesis and progression.
Although MYC is overexpressed in both early and metastatic disease and associated with …

Single‐cell analysis of mouse and human prostate reveals novel fibroblasts with specialized distribution and microenvironment interactions

DB Joseph, GH Henry, A Malewska… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stromal–epithelial interactions are critical to the morphogenesis, differentiation, and
homeostasis of the prostate, but the molecular identity and anatomy of discrete stromal cell …

Prostate organoids: emerging experimental tools for translational research

M Beshiri, S Agarwal, JJ Yin… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Organoid technology has provided new translational research opportunities in oncology, in
part by enabling the development of patient-representative living biobanks. Prostate cancer …

5‐Alpha reductase inhibitors induce a prostate luminal to club cell transition in human benign prostatic hyperplasia

DB Joseph, GH Henry, A Malewska… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a progressive expansion of peri‐urethral prostate
tissue common in aging men. Patients with enlarged prostates are treated with 5‐alpha …

Glucocorticoid treatment influences prostate cancer cell growth and the tumor microenvironment via altered glucocorticoid receptor signaling in prostate fibroblasts

A Eigentler, F Handle, S Schanung, A Degen, H Hackl… - Oncogene, 2024 - nature.com
Despite significant therapeutic advances in recent years, treatment of metastatic prostate
cancer (PCa) remains palliative, owing to the inevitable occurrence of drug resistance …

Stress relief: emerging methods to mitigate dissociation-induced artefacts

L Machado, F Relaix, P Mourikis - Trends in Cell Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The rapid progress of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) at large scales has led to
what seemed impossible until recently: the generation of comprehensive transcriptional …

Stromal androgen signaling acts as tumor niches to drive prostatic basal epithelial progenitor-initiated oncogenesis

A Hiroto, WK Kim, A Pineda, Y He, DH Lee, V Le… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The androgen receptor (AR)-signaling pathways are essential for prostate tumorigenesis.
Although significant effort has been devoted to directly targeting AR-expressing tumor cells …