Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20440270›Full record

ReviewOncogene2010

Differential androgen receptor signals in different cells explain why androgen-deprivation therapy of prostate cancer fails.

Y Niu, T-M Chang, S Yeh, W-L Ma, Y Z Wang, C Chang

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Review in Oncogene, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers.

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77citing papers in PubMed
12.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

77 citing papers in PubMed, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Y NiuDepartments of Pathology, Urology, Radiation Oncology and Wilmot Cancer Center, George Whipple Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
T-M Chang
S Yeh
W-L Ma
Y Z Wang
C Chang
University of Rochester Medical Center · USChina Medical University · TWTianjin Medical University · CNUniversity of British Columbia · CAUniversity of Rochester · US

Funding

Loss of Androgen Receptor Promotes Metastatic Prostate CancerR01CA122840 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI CHANG, CHAWNSHANG, YEH, SHUYUAN · 2007 to 2011
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS CA122840
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prostate cancer is one of the major causes of cancer-related death in the western world. Androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) for the suppression of androgens binding to the androgen receptor (AR) has been the norm of prostate cancer treatment. Despite early success to suppress prostate tumor growth, ADT eventually fails leading to recurrent tumor growth in a hormone-refractory manner, even though AR remains to function in hormone-refractory prostate cancer. Interestingly, some prostate cancer survivors who received androgen replacement therapy had improved quality of life without adverse effect on their cancer progression. These contrasting clinical data suggest that differential androgen/AR signals in individual cells of prostate tumors can exist in the same or different patients, and may be used to explain why ADT of prostate cancer fails. Such a hypothesis is supported by the results obtained from transgenic mice with selective knockout of AR in prostatic stromal vs epithelial cells and orthotopic transplants of various human prostate cancer cell lines with AR over-expression or knockout. These studies concluded that AR functions as a stimulator for prostate cancer proliferation and metastasis in stromal cells, as a survival factor of prostatic cancer epithelial luminal cells, and as a suppressor for prostate cancer basal intermediate cell growth and metastasis. These dual yet opposite functions of the stromal and epithelial AR may challenge the current ADT to battle prostate cancer and should be taken into consideration when developing new AR-targeting therapies in selective prostate cancer cells.

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Signal TransductionAndrogensAnimalsDisease ProgressionHumansMaleProstatic NeoplasmsReceptors, AndrogenTreatment OutcomeAndrogensReceptors, Androgen

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PMID20440270
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