Endocrine Abstracts

Vitamin D receptor (VDR) signalling can be affected with a variety of compounds, both endo- or exogenous. However, any disruption of VDR transcriptional activity can exert severe physiological or pathophysiological outcomes. It is therefore of a great importance to have a reliable in vitro screening technique that would provide a tool for efficient identification of agonists and activators of human VDR. In the current work, we described two novel human reporter cell l...

Androgen receptor (AR, NR3C4) is a 110-kDa ligand-activated transcriptional factor that belongs to the steroid hormone receptor superfamily. It has broad developmental effects and its mutations may have a great impact on pubertal development, genesis of prostatic hyperplasia, and even prostate cancer. Commonly known endogenous ligands of AR are testosterone and 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT). In the last years, several drugs and environmental pollutants were identified to a...