Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18301781›Full record

ReviewNuclear receptor signaling2008

AR, the cell cycle, and prostate cancer.

Steven P Balk, Karen E Knudsen

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Review in Nuclear receptor signaling, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 189 papers.

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189citing papers in PubMed
22.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

189 citing papers in PubMed, 329 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A Signal-Finding Study of Abemaciclib in Heavily Pretreated Patients with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Results from CYCLONE 1.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024
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  7. Triplet therapy for metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer: Rationale and clinical evidence.International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association · 2025
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  16. Post-eclosion growth in thebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  20. Prohibitin Links Cell Cycle, Motility and Invasion in Prostate Cancer Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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129 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Steven P BalkCancer Biology Program-Hematology Oncology Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Karen E Knudsen
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center · US

Funding

Cyclin D1: repercussions of AR control and alternative splicing in prostate canceR01CA099996 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI KNUDSEN, KAREN E · 2003 to 2013
$2.6M
Endocrine disruptors: AR regulation and prostate cancerR01ES016675 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI KNUDSEN, KAREN E · 2007 to 2011
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA099996NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES016675
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The androgen receptor (AR) is a critical effector of prostate cancer development and progression. The dependence of this tumor type on AR activity is exploited in treatment of disseminated prostate cancers, wherein ablation of AR function (achieved either through ligand depletion and/or the use of AR antagonists) is the first line of therapeutic intervention. These strategies are initially effective, and induce a mixed response of cell cycle arrest or apoptosis in prostate cancer cells. However, recurrent, incurable tumors ultimately arise as a result of inappropriately restored AR function. Based on these observations, it is imperative to define the mechanisms by which AR controls cancer cell proliferation. Mechanistic investigation has revealed that AR acts as a master regulator of G1-S phase progression, able to induce signals that promote G1 cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) activity, induce phosphorylation/inactivation of the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor (RB), and thereby govern androgen-dependent proliferation. These functions appear to be independent of the recently identified TMPRSS2-ETS fusions. Once engaged, several components of the cell cycle machinery actively modulate AR activity throughout the cell cycle, thus indicating that crosstalk between the AR and cell cycle pathways likely modulate the mitogenic response to androgen. As will be discussed, discrete aberrations in this process can alter the proliferative response to androgen, and potentially subvert hormonal control of tumor progression.

Indexed as

Androgen Receptor AntagonistsAndrogen AntagonistsCell CycleCell ProliferationCyclin-Dependent KinasesGenes, Tumor SuppressorHumansMaleNeoplasms, Hormone-DependentPhosphorylationProstate-Specific AntigenProstatic NeoplasmsReceptors, AndrogenRetinoblastoma ProteinAndrogen AntagonistsAndrogen Receptor AntagonistsAR protein, humanCyclin-Dependent KinasesProstate-Specific AntigenReceptors, AndrogenRetinoblastoma Protein

Identifiers

PMID18301781
PMCPMC2254330
OpenAlexW2167277055

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