Sentences with phrase «blocks androgen receptors»

Flutamide blocks androgen receptors on hair follicle cells so androgens can't connect to the receptors.

When Barton and colleagues blocked androgen receptor in these cells, the cells died.

Androgens, like testosterone, encourage the growth of prostate cancer cells, so scientists designed drugs called selective androgen receptor antagonists / modulators (SARMs) to block androgen receptors.

One user said his «libido and sexual function generally declined» and apparently milk thistle can both block androgen receptors (study) and raise prolactin, which has anti-testosterone effects.

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Denmeade says the combination of drugs that block testosterone production and receptors, called androgen deprivation therapy, may make prostate cancer more aggressive over time by enabling prostate cancer cells to subvert attempts to block testosterone receptors.

Such a drug would block only the androgen receptor in prostate cells, and so stop the chain of reactions leading to further tumour growth, says McCague.

«We have demonstrated for the first time that Hsp90 inhibitors can block the production of the most common abnormal androgen receptors that cause many prostate cancers to stop responding to current treatments.

The new research found that on top of their known effects on cancer, Hsp90 inhibition also blocked production of abnormal forms of the androgen receptor, stripping cancer cells of their defences against hormone treatments.

Vinclozolin blocks cell receptors that are normally activated by the hormone androgen.

Apalutamide binds to the androgen receptor, blocking its activation by testosterone and other androgens.

In addition, not only are some of them estrogen mimickers, but others will suppress your enzymatic activity necessary to produce androgen hormones, while other will block the receptor sites on the cell.

«We think some women may get more vulvar dryness with birth control pills because the pills are blocking male sex hormones called androgens, and the vulva has androgen receptors.»