Recent clinical data have led to the consideration of sexual steroids as new potential therapeutic tools for multiple sclerosis. Selective estrogen receptor modulators can exhibit neuroprotective effects like estrogen, with fewer systemic estrogen side effects than estrogen, offering a more promising therapeutic modality for multiple sclerosis. The important role of astrocytes in a proinflammat...

We report a case of a woman with a depressive disorder with partial response to antidepressant treatment. Raloxifene, a Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator (SERM) was added to the treatment, the patient achieving complete remission of her depressive symptoms. The interest of our case lies in the fact that it exemplifies the relationship between depressive disorders and hormonal changes during...

Of patients with castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), less than 25-33% survive more than five years. Recent studies have implicated estrogen, acting either alone or synergistically with androgens in the development of castrate resistant prostate cancer. Several in vitro and in vivo studies, as well as a limited number of clinical trials, have highlighted the potential of selective estroge...

RATIONALE Tamoxifen has been used in women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer and has been shown to successfully reduce both recurrence and mortality. On the contrary, long-term use of tamoxifen has hormone-related urogenital side effects which decrease the quality of life of the patients. PATIENT CONCERNS In this case report, we present a breast cancer patient receiving tamoxifen w...

We have synthesized a series of novel SERMs bearing a ferrocenyl unit based on a three-dimensional oxabicyclo[2.2.1]heptene core scaffold. These compounds displayed high receptor binding affinities as well as ERα or ERβ selectivity. In cell proliferation assays, we found that these ligands were cytotoxic at micromolar concentrations in both ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancer cells. On fu...

Botanic Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) and Venous Thrombo Emboli (VTE) Arnon Blum1*, Shira Shoher1, Andrei Adler2, Doron Ben David2, Shay Yeganeh1 1Department of Medicine Baruch Padeh Poria Hsopital Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Imaging, Baruch Padeh Poria Hsopital Bar Ilan University, Israel *Corresponding author: Dr. Arnon Blum, Department of Medicine, Baruch Pade...

In females, estrogens play a key role in reproduction and have beneficial effects on the skeletal, cardiovascular, and central nervous systems. Most estrogenic responses are mediated by estrogen receptors (ERs), either ER alpha or ER beta, which are members of the nuclear receptor superfamily of ligand-dependent transcription factors. Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) are ER ligand...

Recently we constructed yeast cells that either express the human estrogen receptor alpha or the human androgen receptor in combination with a consensus ERE or ARE repeat in the promoter region of a green fluorescent protein (yEGFP) read-out system. These bioassays were proven to be highly specific for their cognate agonistic compounds. In this study the value of these yeast bioassays was asses...