Despite treatment, prostate cancer commonly progresses into castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), which remains largely incurable, requiring the development of new interventions. Darolutamide is an orally administered second-generation androgen receptor inhibitor indicated for patients with non-metastatic CRPC or metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Here, we evaluated the effect of androgen receptor (AR) inhibition by darolutamide in combination with DNA double-strand-break-inducing targeted radium-223 alpha therapy in vitro and in an intratibial LNCaP xenograft model mimicking prostate cancer metastasized to bone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aim of this study was to investigate whether periodontal condition is associated with the development of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).
Material And Methods: This study was based on a subpopulation of a cohort of persons born in 1935 and living in Oulu, Finland, on October 1, 1990. The participants were normoglycemic (no previously diagnosed diabetes mellitus and a 2-h oral glucose tolerance test [OGTT] blood glucose < 7.
Hyperactive Ras signalling is found in most cancers. Ras proteins are only active in membrane nanoclusters, which are therefore potential drug targets. We previously showed that the nanocluster scaffold galectin-1 (Gal1) enhances H-Ras nanoclustering via direct interaction with the Ras binding domain (RBD) of Raf.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn increased risk of non-pathological fractures in patients with prostate cancer and bone metastases has been associated with combination treatment with radium-223, abiraterone, and prednisone/prednisolone in the absence of bone-protecting agents. Here, we investigated possible mechanisms leading to this outcome using an intratibial LNCaP model mimicking prostate cancer bone metastases. Male NOD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To investigate whether long-term obesity, long-term central obesity and weight gain are associated with alveolar bone loss.
Materials And Methods: A sub-population (n = 1318) of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 was categorized based on body mass index (BMI: normal weight, overweight and obesity) and waist circumference (WC: no central obesity, central obesity) at ages 31 and 46. These categories were combined to define whether the participants stayed in the same categories or passed on to a higher category (weight gain).