Relevance of pro-angiogenic signalling as a mode of relapse to anti-androgen therapy in prostate cancer

Administration of bicalutamide to LNCaP tumours induces a rapid and sustained hypoxia in the prostate. This treatment-induced hypoxia (> 14 days) promotes an increased synthesis of the CXC-chemokine Interleukin-8(CXCL8) co-incident with increasing oxygen tension and the restoration of tumour vasc...

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Main Author: Mckechnie, Melanie
Published: Queen's University Belfast 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602503