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SUBMITTER: Maund SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3148300 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maund Sophia L SL Barclay Wendy W WW Hover Laura D LD Axanova Linara S LS Sui Guangchao G Hipp Jason D JD Fleet James C JC Thorburn Andrew A Cramer Scott D SD
Cancer research 20110608 15
Vitamin D(3) is a promising preventative and therapeutic agent for prostate cancer, but its implementation is hampered by a lack of understanding about its mechanism of action. Upon treatment with 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) [1,25(OH)(2)D(3), vitamin D(3)], the metabolically active form of vitamin D(3), adult prostate progenitor/stem cells (PrP/SC) undergo cell-cycle arrest, senescence, and differentiation to an androgen receptor-positive luminal epithelial cell fate. Microarray analyses of cont ...[more]