Androgen-insensitive prostate cancer cells transiently respond to castration treatment when growing in an androgen-dependent prostate environment

Prostate

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 370-377

  Halin, Sofia ^a   Hammarsten, Peter ^a   Wikström, Pernilla ^a   Bergh, Anders ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Castration; Hypoxia; Prostate; Vascular density

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER CELL; CASTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOXIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RAT; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; MALE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

EID: 33847378858     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: 10970045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pros.20473     Document Type: Article

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