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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine research2013

Terazosin treatment induces caspase-3 expression in the rat ventral prostate.

Georgios Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Vlachodimitropoulos, Aspasia Kyroudi, Mirsini Kouloukoussa, Despina Perrea, Dionisios Mitropoulos

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Georgios PapadopoulosDepartment of Histology and Embryology, University of Athens Medical School, Greece.
Dimitrios Vlachodimitropoulos
Aspasia Kyroudi
Mirsini Kouloukoussa
Despina Perrea
Dionisios Mitropoulos
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundQuinazoline-based alpha1-adrenergic receptor antagonists may not act solely on smooth muscle contractility. We evaluated the in vivo effect of terazosin on the expression of caspase-3 in the rat ventral prostate.

methodsFifteen Wistar rats were treated with terazosin (1.2 mg/kg body weight, given orally every second day) for 120 days. Another 15 control animals received the same amount of distilled water. The expression of caspase-3 was assessed immunohistochemically in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections.

resultsTerazosin treatment did not affect prostate weight and histomorphology. In controls caspase-3 was expressed weakly and sporadically. In contrast, strong and weak expression was evident in 67% and 33% of the terazosin-treated specimens, respectively.

conclusionsThese findings implicate the induction of caspase-3 expression by terazosin as a potential molecular mechanism of its apoptotic action on prostate cells.

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Alpha-adrenoreceptor antagonistsApoptosisCaspase-3ProstateRatTerazosin

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PMID23518907
PMCPMC3601499
OpenAlexW1974651536

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