Prostate cancer: The need for biomarkers and new therapeutic targets

Journal of Zhejiang University: Science B

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-42

  Felgueiras, Juliana ^a   Silva, Joana Vieira ^a   Fardilha, Margarida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Androgen; Biomarker; Cell signaling pathway; Estrogen; Prostate cancer (PCa); Therapeutical target

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; BETA CATENIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 9; CD31 ANTIGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; INTEGRIN; INTEGRIN RECEPTOR; MOLECULAR MARKER; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN KINASE C DELTA; PROTEIN P53; PYRROLINE 5 CARBOXYLATE REDUCTASE; S PHASE KINASE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; SELECTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TELOMERASE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR MARKER; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UVOMORULIN; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

AGING; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ANGIOGENESIS; ATYPICAL SMALL ACINAR PROLIFERATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DAMAGE; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; METASTASIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRECANCER; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE INFLAMMATORY ATROPHY; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROSTATIC INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84893095179     PISSN: 16731581     EISSN: 18621783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1631/jzus.B1300106     Document Type: Review

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