Protective actions of sex steroid hormones in Alzheimer's disease

CJ Pike, JC Carroll, ER Rosario, AM Barron - Frontiers in …, 2009 - Elsevier
Risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with age-related loss of sex steroid
hormones in both women and men. In post-menopausal women, the precipitous depletion of …

[HTML][HTML] Sex hormones, aging, and Alzheimer's disease

AM Barron, CJ Pike - Frontiers in bioscience (Elite edition), 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A promising strategy to delay and perhaps prevent Alzheimer's disease (AD) is to identify the
age-related changes that put the brain at risk for the disease. A significant normal age …

Drug insight: role of the androgen receptor in the development and progression of prostate cancer

ME Taplin - Nature Clinical Practice Oncology, 2007 - nature.com
Functional androgen receptor (AR) signaling is necessary for the development of prostate
cancer. The therapeutic effect of androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer was …

Structural characteristics of anabolic androgenic steroids contributing to binding to the androgen receptor and to their anabolic and androgenic activities: applied …

AG Fragkaki, YS Angelis, M Koupparis… - Steroids, 2009 - Elsevier
Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) are synthetic derivatives of testosterone introduced for
therapeutic purposes providing enhanced anabolic potency with reduced androgenic …

Dissociable effects on birdsong of androgen signaling in cortex-like brain regions of canaries

BA Alward, J Balthazart, GF Ball - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
The neural basis of how learned vocalizations change during development and in adulthood
represents a major challenge facing cognitive neuroscience. This plasticity in the degree to …

Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Nonsteroidal Cycloalkane[d]isoxazole-Containing Androgen Receptor Modulators

PK Poutiainen, T Oravilahti, M Perakyla… - Journal of medicinal …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We report here the design, preparation, and systematic evaluation of a novel cycloalkane [d]
isoxazole pharmacophoric fragment-containing androgen receptor (AR) modulators …

Effects of aromatase inhibition on sexual function and well-being in postmenopausal women treated with testosterone: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial

SR Davis, R Goldstat, MA Papalia, S Shah… - Menopause, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The extent to which aromatization of testosterone (T) to estradiol is required for
the observed effects of testosterone therapy on sexual function and well-being are not …

Aryl-propionamide-derived selective androgen receptor modulators: liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry characterization of the in vitro synthesized …

T Kuuranne, A Leinonen, W Schänzer, M Kamber… - Drug metabolism and …, 2008 - ASPET
Selective androgen receptor modulators (SARM) are a prominent group of compounds for
being misused in sports owing to their advantageous anabolic properties and reduced side …

Androgen receptor: role and novel therapeutic prospects in prostate cancer

ME Taplin - Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is necessary for the development of prostate cancer.
Androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer was described over 50 years ago …

Flutamide and cyproterone acetate exert agonist effects: induction of androgen receptor-dependent neuroprotection

TVV Nguyen, M Yao, CJ Pike - Endocrinology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Androgens can exert profound effects on the organization, development, and function of the
nervous system through activation of androgen receptors (ARs). Nonsteroidal and steroidal …