Constitutively Active AR-V7 Plays an Essential Role in the Development and Progression of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Qu, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Dai, Bo ^a,b   Ye, Dingwei ^a,b   Kong, Yunyi ^b   Chang, Kun ^a,b   Jia, Zhongwei ^a,b   Yang, Xiaoqun ^b   Zhang, Hailiang ^a,b   Zhu, Yao ^a,b   Shi, Guohai ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS, CASTRATION-RESISTANT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS, CASTRATION-RESISTANT; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

EID: 84925467074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07654     Document Type: Article

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