Prostate Cell News Volume 13.26 | Nov 04 2022

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    2022-11-04 | PCN 13.26


    Prostate Cell News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 13.26 – 4 November, 2022
    TOP STORY

    FOXA2 Drives Lineage Plasticity and KIT Pathway Activation in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer

    Using single-cell multiomics analyses, researchers investigated the dynamics of cellular heterogeneity, transcriptome regulation, and microenvironmental factors in 107,201 cells from genetically engineered mouse prostate cancer samples with complete time series of tumor evolution seen in patients.
    [Cancer Cell]

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    A Clinical-Grade Liquid Biomarker Detects Neuroendocrine Differentiation in Prostate Cancer

    Investigators performed analytical validation of a circulating tumor cell multiplex RNA qPCR assay to identify the limit of quantification in cell lines, synthetic cDNA, and patient samples.
    [Journal of Clinical Investigation]

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    The Cell-Free DNA Methylome Captures Distinctions between Localized and Metastatic Prostate Tumors

    Using the highly sensitive enrichment-based sequencing technology, the authors provided analysis of 60 and 175 plasma DNA methylomes from patients with localized and metastatic prostate cancer, respectively.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Stromal Androgen Signaling Acts as Tumor Niches to Drive Prostatic Basal Epithelial Progenitor-Initiated Oncogenesis

    Scientists demonstrated that loss of androgen receptor in stromal sonic-hedgehog Gli1-lineage cells diminished prostate epithelial oncogenesis and tumor development using in vivo assays and mouse models.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Targeted Deep Tumor Penetration of Polymer Nanocarriers

    To evaluate the performance of nanocarriers in improving imaging contrast and therapeutic efficacy, researchers designed and synthesized prostate cancer-targeting starPEG nanocarriers with one or three prostate-specific membrane antigen-targeting urea-based ACUPA ligands.
    [ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces]

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    Integrative Molecular Analyses Define Correlates of High B7-H3 Expression in Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer

    Investigators interrogated B7-H3 expression and its regulation in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer since B7-H3 could be an excellent therapy target due to its overexpression in prostate cancer with minimal expression in normal tissues and association with poor prognosis.
    [npj Precision Oncology]

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    Prostate Cancer-Associated Urinary Proteomes Differ before and after Prostatectomy

    Scientists focused on urinary proteomes of patients with prostate cancer and identified tumor-modifying proteins in the samples before and after prostatectomy.
    [Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology]

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    Post-Prostatic-Massage Urine Exosomes of Men with Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome Carry Prostate-Cancer-Typical microRNAs and Activate Proto-Oncogenes

    Researchers investigated microRNAs in exosomes isolated from blood and post-prostatic-massage urine of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome type IIIb patients and healthy men.
    [Molecular Oncology]

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    HSPB8 Facilitates Prostate Cancer Progression via Activating JAK/STAT3 Signaling Pathway

    Investigators determined heat shock protein B8 (HSPB8) expression in prostate cancer (PC) tissues by immunohistochemical staining and explored the in vitro functions of HSPB8 using HSPB8 knockdown DU145 and LNcap PC cell lines.
    [Biochemistry and Cell Biology]

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    REVIEWS

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Focal Boost to Intraprostatic Lesions Using External Beam Radiotherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    The authors review clinical outcomes for MRI-guided external beam radiotherapy focal boost to intraprostatic lesions.
    [European Urology Oncology]

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    Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: Current Status and Future Challenges

    Scientists review the current status and the lingering challenges of the rapidly evolving clinical space of oligometastatic prostate cancer.
    [Journal of Nuclear Medicine]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Senhwa Announces First Patient Successfully Dosed in Phase I Study of Pindnarulex in Combination with Pfizer’s Talazoparib for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer

    Senhwa Biosciences, Inc. announced that their first patient had been successfully dosed, in a Phase I clinical study evaluating the combined treatment with Senhwa’s Pidnarulex and Pfizer’s PARP inhibitor, Talazoparib, in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
    [Senhwa Biosciences, Inc.]

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