ca1 region of hippocampus has an important role in learning and memory. previous reports have shown that androgens like testosterone and its metabolites are present in high concentration in ca1 region of hippocampus. androgen receptors have also high density in this region. therefore, it is suggested that neurohormones in ca1 have an important role in learning and memory. it is likely that test...

Androgen receptor signaling is critical in the development and progression of prostate cancer, leading to intensive efforts to elucidate all potential points of inflection for therapeutic intervention. These efforts have revealed new mechanisms of resistance and raise the possibility that known mechanisms may become even more relevant in the context of effective androgen receptor suppression. T...

Responses to androgen vary widely among prostate cancers and prostatic carcinoma cell lines. We have explored the basis for this heteroge neity by examining the levels of androgen receptor expression in a prostate carcinoma cell line (LNCaP) that expresses the androgen recep tor and two prostate carcinoma cell lines that do not contain detectable androgen receptor. We find that while the LNCaP ...

Responses to androgen vary widely among prostate cancers and prostatic carcinoma cell lines. We have explored the basis for this heteroge neity by examining the levels of androgen receptor expression in a prostate carcinoma cell line (LNCaP) that expresses the androgen recep tor and two prostate carcinoma cell lines that do not contain detectable androgen receptor. We find that while the LNCaP ...

Responses to androgen vary widely among prostate cancers and prostatic carcinoma cell lines. We have explored the basis for this heterogeneity by examining the levels of androgen receptor expression in a prostate carcinoma cell line (LNCaP) that expresses the androgen receptor and two prostate carcinoma cell lines that do not contain detectable androgen receptor. We find that while the LNCaP ce...

Growth of prostatic epithelial cells is androgen-dependent; however, the mechanism of androgen action on cell growth is not well defined. We investigated whether androgen-dependent prostatic epithelial cell growth is mediated by androgen regulation of expression of genes controlling cell cycle progression. For this purpose, we used an androgen-dependent prostatic cancer cell line, LNCaP-FGC, as...

Prostate cancer is initially androgen dependent and there is evidence that androgen receptor continues to play a role in androgen-independent prostate cancer. Androgen receptor activity depends both on the level of androgens and on the level of coactivators that interact with androgen receptor. Our goal was to evaluate the role of the androgen receptor coactivator SRC-1 in prostate cancer progr...

In exploring the biological basis of androgen-independent prostate cancer, we observed serum-independent growth of androgen-independent cells. We then discovered that in androgen-independent but not androgen-dependent cells, the serum-responsive gene c-fos is insensitive to phorbol esters, which regulate c-fos through the same mechanisms as serum. Transient expression of protein kinase C, throu...

Androgen receptor plays a critical role in the development of primary as well as advanced hormone-refractory prostate cancer. Therefore, ablation of androgen receptor from prostate cancer cells is an interesting concept for developing a new therapy not only for androgen-dependent prostate cancer but also for metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer, for which there is no effective treatmen...

Androgens mediate a number of diverse responses through the androgen receptor, a 110 kD ligand-activated nuclear receptor. Androgen receptor expression, which is found in a variety of tissues, changes throughout development, aging, and malignant transformation. The androgen receptor can be activated by two ligands, testosterone and dihydrotestosterone, which bind to the androgen receptor with d...