Genetics and biology of prostate cancer

G Wang, D Zhao, DJ Spring… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite the high long-term survival in localized prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer
remains largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. The lethality of advanced …

Cellular plasticity and the neuroendocrine phenotype in prostate cancer

AH Davies, H Beltran, A Zoubeidi - Nature Reviews Urology, 2018 - nature.com
The success of next-generation androgen receptor (AR) pathway inhibitors, such as
abiraterone acetate and enzalutamide, in treating prostate cancer has been hampered by …

Targeting metastasis-initiating cells through the fatty acid receptor CD36

G Pascual, A Avgustinova, S Mejetta, M Martín… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The fact that the identity of the cells that initiate metastasis in most human cancers is
unknown hampers the development of antimetastatic therapies. Here we describe a …

Fibroblast-derived exosomes contribute to chemoresistance through priming cancer stem cells in colorectal cancer

Y Hu, C Yan, L Mu, K Huang, X Li, D Tao, Y Wu, J Qin - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Chemotherapy resistance observed in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) may be related
to the presence of cancer stem cells (CSCs), but the underlying mechanism (s) remain …

Sphere-Formation Assay: Three-Dimensional in vitro Culturing of Prostate Cancer Stem/Progenitor Sphere-Forming Cells

HF Bahmad, K Cheaito, RM Chalhoub… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs) are a sub-population of cells, identified in most tumors,
responsible for the initiation, recurrence, metastatic potential, and resistance of different …

Cell-of-origin of cancer versus cancer stem cells: assays and interpretations

K Rycaj, DG Tang - Cancer research, 2015 - aacrjournals.org
A tumor originates from a normal cell that has undergone tumorigenic transformation as a
result of genetic mutations. This transformed cell is the cell-of-origin for the tumor. In contrast …

Exosomal Wnt-induced dedifferentiation of colorectal cancer cells contributes to chemotherapy resistance

YB Hu, C Yan, L Mu, YL Mi, H Zhao, H Hu, XL Li… - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are inherently resistant to chemotherapy, and CSCs in
chemotherapy-failed recurrent tumors are enriched; however, the cellular origin of …

MicroRNA-141 suppresses prostate cancer stem cells and metastasis by targeting a cohort of pro-metastasis genes

C Liu, R Liu, D Zhang, Q Deng, B Liu, HP Chao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
MicroRNAs play important roles in regulating tumour development, progression and
metastasis. Here we show that one of the miR-200 family members, miR-141, is under …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying prostate cancer development: therapeutic implications

U Testa, G Castelli, E Pelosi - Medicines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer is the most frequent nonskin cancer and second most common cause of
cancer-related deaths in man. Prostate cancer is a clinically heterogeneous disease with …

Androgen action in prostate function and disease

PP Banerjee, S Banerjee, TR Brown… - American journal of …, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is an enlargement of the prostate gland that is frequently
found in aging men. Androgens are essential for the development and differentiated function …