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Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) family and prostate cancer
Gennigens, Christine; Menetrier-Caux, C.; Droz, J. P.
2006In Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 58 (2), p. 124-145
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Keywords :
prostate cancer; IGF; IGF-R; IGFBP; PTEN; androgen-independent; bone rnetastases
Abstract :
[en] There is abundant in vitro, animal and epidemiologic evidence to suggest that the Insulin-Like Growth Factor (IGF) family is a multicomponent network of molecules which is involved in the regulation of both physiological and pathological growth processes in prostate. The IGF family plays a key role in cellular metabolism, differentiation, proliferation, transformation and apoptosis, during normal development and malignant growth. This family also seem essential in prostate cancer bone metastases, angiogenesis and androgen-independent progression. Therapeutic alternatives in men with progressive prostate cancer after androgen ablation are very limited. More effective therapies are needed for these patients. Pharmacologic interventions targeting the IGF family are being devised. Such strategies include reduction of IGF-I levels (growth hormone-releasing hormone antagonists, somatostatin analogs), reduction of functional IGF-I receptor levels (antisense oligonucleotides, small interfering RNA), inhibition of IGF-IR and its signalling (monoclonal antibodies, small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors) and Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Disciplines :
Oncology
Hematology
Author, co-author :
Gennigens, Christine  ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Oncologie médicale
Menetrier-Caux, C.
Droz, J. P.
Language :
English
Title :
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) family and prostate cancer
Publication date :
May 2006
Journal title :
Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology
ISSN :
1040-8428
eISSN :
1879-0461
Publisher :
Elsevier Science Inc, New York, United States - New York
Volume :
58
Issue :
2
Pages :
124-145
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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