Aggressive variants of prostate cancer: underlying mechanisms of neuroendocrine transdifferentiation

L Merkens, V Sailer, D Lessel, E Janzen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Prostate cancer is a hormone-driven disease and its tumor cell growth highly relies on
increased androgen receptor (AR) signaling. Therefore, targeted therapy directed against …

[HTML][HTML] Sustained proliferation in cancer: Mechanisms and novel therapeutic targets

MA Feitelson, A Arzumanyan, RJ Kulathinal… - Seminars in cancer …, 2015 - Elsevier
Proliferation is an important part of cancer development and progression. This is manifest by
altered expression and/or activity of cell cycle related proteins. Constitutive activation of …

Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance

S Deng, C Wang, Y Wang, Y Xu, X Li, NA Johnson… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging evidence indicates that various cancers can gain resistance to targeted therapies
by acquiring lineage plasticity. Although various genomic and transcriptomic aberrations …

Exercise-induced myokines and their effect on prostate cancer

JS Kim, DA Galvão, RU Newton, E Gray… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Exercise is recognized by clinicians in the field of clinical oncology for its potential role in
reducing the risk of certain cancers and in reducing the risk of disease recurrence and …

Androgen receptor in prostate cancer

CA Heinlein, C Chang - Endocrine reviews, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The normal development and maintenance of the prostate is dependent on androgen acting
through the androgen receptor (AR). AR remains important in the development and …

Androgen receptor signaling in prostate cancer

Z Culig, FR Santer - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2014 - Springer
The androgen receptor (AR), ligand-induced transcription factor, is expressed in primary
prostate cancer and in metastases. AR regulates multiple cellular events, proliferation …

Constitutive activation of Stat3 in human prostate tumors and cell lines: direct inhibition of Stat3 signaling induces apoptosis of prostate cancer cells

LB Mora, R Buettner, J Seigne, J Diaz, N Ahmad… - Cancer research, 2002 - AACR
Signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) were identified originally as key
components of cytokine signaling pathways. More recently, constitutive activation of STAT …

Androgen receptor signaling in androgen-refractory prostate cancer

ME Grossmann, H Huang… - Journal of the National …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Prostate cancer is the second most prevalent cancer in males in the United States. Standard
therapy relies on removing, or blocking the actions of, androgens. In most cases, this therapy …

LncRNA-p21 alters the antiandrogen enzalutamide-induced prostate cancer neuroendocrine differentiation via modulating the EZH2/STAT3 signaling

J Luo, K Wang, S Yeh, Y Sun, L Liang, Y Xiao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
While the antiandrogen enzalutamide (Enz) extends the castration resistant prostate cancer
(CRPC) patients' survival an extra 4.8 months, it might also result in some adverse effects via …

STAT3 regulated ARF expression suppresses prostate cancer metastasis

J Pencik, M Schlederer, W Gruber, C Unger… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most prevalent cancer in men. Hyperactive STAT3 is thought to
be oncogenic in PCa. However, targeting of the IL-6/STAT3 axis in PCa patients has failed to …