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Androgen Receptor-Dependent Effects Of Resveratrol On Tnsin Mrna Levels In Prostate Cancer Cells, Courtney Pisano Jan 2011

Androgen Receptor-Dependent Effects Of Resveratrol On Tnsin Mrna Levels In Prostate Cancer Cells, Courtney Pisano

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The chemopreventive effects of resveratrol (RSV) on cancers, including prostate cancer, have been well documented; but the mechanisms are not well known. It has been reported recently that tensin, a matrix-adhesion protein, which is greatly down-regulated in prostate cancer, has been induced by RSV in several cancer cell lines. In order to know if RSV up-regulates tensin in prostate cells, we first treated LNCaP cells with RSV and demonstrated that tensin mRNA levels were upregulated by RSV in a time and dose dependent manner. Since LNCaP cells are androgen receptor (AR) positive and previous findings have shown that RSV down-regulates …