Molecular mechanisms underlying resistance to androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer

Oncotarget

Volumn 7, Issue 39, 2016, Pages 64447-64470

  Wadosky, Kristine M ^a   Koochekpour, Shahriar ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

ADT; Androgen receptor; Castrate recurrent; Prostate cancer; Splice variant

Indexed keywords

ABIRATERONE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTENEDIONE; BICALUTAMIDE; CABAZITAXEL; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; CYTOCHROME P450 17; DOCETAXEL; ENZALUTAMIDE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ESTRAMUSTINE; FLUTAMIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HISTONE H2AX; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 222; MITOXANTRONE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLACEBO; PRASTERONE; PREDNISONE; PREGNENOLONE; PROTEIN KINASE B; SOLUTE CARRIER ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER 1A2; UNINDEXED DRUG; ANTIANDROGEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; AR PROTEIN, HUMAN; KALLIKREIN; KALLIKREIN-RELATED PEPTIDASE 3, HUMAN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADVANCED CANCER; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASTRATION RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPAIR; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; KALLIKREINS; MALE; MUTATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS, CASTRATION-RESISTANT; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84994049260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10901     Document Type: Review

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