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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Vivek Arora
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-51872 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cell 20131201 6
The treatment of advanced prostate cancer has been transformed by novel antiandrogen therapies such as enzalutamide. Here, we identify induction of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) expression as a common feature of drug-resistant tumors in a credentialed preclinical model, a finding also confirmed in patient samples. GR substituted for the androgen receptor (AR) to activate a similar but distinguishable set of target genes and was necessary for maintenance of the resistant phenotype. The GR agonist ...[more]