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REPORT DATE
May 2015
REPORT TYPEFinal Annual Summary
PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBERJohn s Hopkins Uni versity 600 N. Wolfe Street Baltimore, Maryland 21287
SPONSORING / MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702-5012
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ABSTRACTWe hypothesized that dehydroepiandrosterone metabolites or their synthetic derivatives are able to bind to the androgen receptor with low, if any, agonist activity and thus function as better antiandrogens than currently available ones. We preliminarily identified three potential dehydroepiandrosterone derivatives with marginal androgenic activity. In this project, we assessed the effects of these compounds, in comparison with classic antiandrogens clinically used, on cell proliferation/apoptosis, cell migration/invasion, and prostate-specific antigen expression in prostate cancer lines in vitro as well as on tumor growth in animal models for prostate cancer and found their inhibitory effects on androgen-mediated tumor outgrowth. We further dissected molecular mechanisms of how such compounds suppress the progression of prostate cancer and found that they could alter androgen-mediated androgen receptor functions in prostate cancer cells. Importantly, these dehydroepiandrosterone derivatives were found to possess marginal agonist effects on the activity of androgen receptor.
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IntroductionAlthough antiandrogens that can block androgen action through the androgen receptor (AR) have been widely used for the treatment of prostate cancer, the majority of available agents possess agonist activity, resulting in increases in serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, known as the antiandrogen withdrawal syndrome [1,2]. In addition, we previously demonstrated that androstenediol, a physiological metabolite from dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and a precursor of testosterone, has an ...