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Prospects of estrogen receptor ? activation in the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer.

ABSTRACT: Advanced prostate cancer can develop into castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). This process is mediated either by intratumoral ligand synthesis or by mutations or aberrations of the androgen receptor (AR) or its cofactors. To date, no curative therapy for CRPC is available, as AR-targeted therapies eventually result in the development of resistance. The human prostate cancer cell line VCaP (vertebral cancer of the prostate) overexpresses AR and its splice variants (ARVs) as a mechanism of resistance to androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) of external and intratumoral origin. In the present study, we demonstrate that stimulating estrogen receptor ? activity with the specific agonist 8?-VE2 in VCaP cells in successive stages of ADT induced a time- and dose-dependent decrease in cell survival and an increase in apoptosis. Furthermore, 8?-VE2 treatment reduced the overexpression of the AR as well as ARVs in VCaP cells under maximum ADT. Our results indicate that decreased survival of the androgen-dependent CRPC cells employing apoptosis together with the regulative effect on AR expression could have beneficial effects over current AR-targeting therapies.

SUBMITTER: Gehrig J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5471027 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Prospects of estrogen receptor β activation in the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Gehrig Julia J Kaulfuß Silke S Jarry Hubertus H Bremmer Felix F Stettner Mark M Burfeind Peter P Thelen Paul P

Oncotarget 20170501 21

Advanced prostate cancer can develop into castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). This process is mediated either by intratumoral ligand synthesis or by mutations or aberrations of the androgen receptor (AR) or its cofactors. To date, no curative therapy for CRPC is available, as AR-targeted therapies eventually result in the development of resistance. The human prostate cancer cell line VCaP (vertebral cancer of the prostate) overexpresses AR and its splice variants (ARVs) as a mechanism o ...[more]

PMID: 28380417

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Prospects of estrogen receptor ? activation in the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer.

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Prospects of estrogen receptor β activation in the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer.

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