Treatments Targeting the Androgen Receptor and Its Splice Variants in Breast Cancer

AH Tien, MD Sadar - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is a major cause of death worldwide. The complexity of endocrine regulation
in breast cancer may allow the cancer cells to escape from a particular treatment and result …

In touch with your feminine side: how oestrogen metabolism impacts prostate cancer

HP Rahman, J Hofland, PA Foster - Endocrine-related cancer, 2016 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Prostate cancer is the primary cancer in males, with increasing global incidence rates
making this malignancy a significant healthcare burden. Androgens not only promote normal …

Discovery of highly potent proapoptotic antiestrogens in a series of androst-5, 16-dienes D-modified with imidazole-annulated pendants

V Birukova, A Scherbakov, A Ilina, D Salnikova… - The Journal of Steroid …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heterocyclic derivatives of steroid hormones are potent anticancer agents, which are used in
the chemotherapy of breast and prostate cancers. Here, we describe a novel series of …

Gene expression signature predictive of neuroendocrine transformation in prostate adenocarcinoma

P Ostano, M Mello-Grand, D Sesia, I Gregnanin… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) can arise de novo, but much more commonly
occurs as a consequence of a selective pressure from androgen deprivation therapy or …

A nine-gene signature identification and prognostic risk prediction for patients with lung adenocarcinoma using novel machine learning approach

EY Dessie, JG Chang, YS Chang - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is one the most prevalent cancer with high
mortality and its risk stratification is limited due lack of reliable molecular biomarkers …

A knowledge graph completion method applied to literature-based discovery for predicting missing links targeting cancer drug repurposing

A Daowd, S Abidi, SSR Abidi - International Conference on Artificial …, 2022 - Springer
Cancer literature contains a rich body of implicit knowledge which can play an important role
in drug repurposing. However, classical knowledge retrieval techniques used in Literature …

Precocious Puberty in a Boy With Bilateral Leydig Cell Tumors due to a Somatic Gain-of-Function LHCGR Variant

C Flippo, V Kolli, M Andrew, S Berger… - Journal of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Context Autosomal dominant and rarely de novo gain-of-function variants in the LHCGR
gene are associated with precocious male puberty, while somatic LHCGR variants have …

Design and synthesis of phosphoryl-substituted steroidal pyridazines (Pho-STPYRs) as potent estrogen receptor alpha inhibitors: targeted treatment of hormone …

Y Volkova, A Scherbakov, Y Dzichenka… - RSC Medicinal …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) is an important target for the discovery of new therapeutic
drugs against hormone-dependent breast cancer. A series of phosphoryl-substituted …

Family matters: collaboration and conflict among the steroid receptors raises a need for group therapy

MJ Sikora - Endocrinology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Antiestrogen therapies targeting the function of estrogen receptor (ER) have been the
cornerstone of therapy for ER+ breast cancer for decades. However, as long as these …

Amino polycarboxylic acids-modified abiraterone derivatives as potential injectable anti-prostate cancer agents

N Zhu, S Meng, L Mao, Y Rong, X Wang, Y Liu… - Bioorganic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abiraterone (Abi), an effective cytochrome oxidase P450 C17 (CYP17) inhibitor, inhibits
androgen synthesis in testes, adrenal glands, and prostate tumors. However, their low …