Androgen receptor and its splice variants in prostate cancer

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 3971-3981

  Haile, Simon ^a   Sadar, Marianne D ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amino terminus; Androgen receptor; Castration resistant prostate cancer; CRPC; LBD; NTD; Prostate cancer; Splice variants

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CYTOKINE; EPI 001; GROWTH FACTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADVANCED CANCER; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG TARGETING; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

EID: 82255175103     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-011-0766-7     Document Type: Review

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