Sentences with phrase «like tamoxifen»

Rather than wait and see for two long years only to resort later to drugs designed for breast cancer like tamoxifen and raloxifene or surgical reduction does not seem like a health promoting plan of action particularly for a young boy possibly already struggling with self esteem issues.

«So, medical doctors, traditional doctors will recommend five to 10 years of hormone suppressing drugs, like tamoxifen for example,» Dr. V says.

Studies have shown that medical drugs like tamoxifen can help reduce idiopathic gyneocmastia.

The ACS supported research that contributed to discoveries of new treatments like tamoxifen and Herceptin, and it helped establish the mammogram as the cornerstone of breast cancer screening.

In addition to a range of antibodies, Abcam offers over 4,000 pharmacological tools covering receptor agonists and antagonists, like Tamoxifen Citrate and oestrogen receptor, which is also used in the control of gene expression.

Highly dependent on their estrogen receptors for growth and survival, these tumor cells are sensitive to hormonal therapies, making drugs like tamoxifen and fulvestrant effective first - line therapies for many patients.

Bazedoxifene is a pill that, like tamoxifen, belongs to a class of drugs known as specific estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs).

However, along with this seemingly linear storyline in which retinoids block progesterone's promotion of CK5 + cells, previous work in the lab of CU Cancer Center investigator Peter Kabos, MD, and others shows that breast cancers treated with anti-estrogen drugs like tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors show an increased population of CK5 + cells — it is as if these therapies remove the roadblock of estrogen - dependent cells, leaving CK5 + cells to proliferate.

Not exact matches

OLs formed before tamoxifen injection are red, newly - forming OLs have a yellow «cell body» containing the nucleus surrounded by a green «bundle of sticks» which are short stretches of myelin wrapped around thread - like axons.

For example the researchers used the CRE - ERT2 mouse model validated at the ICS, in which Cre function is controlled by the promoter of Atypical Notch ligand Delta - like homologue1 (Dlk1) under Tamoxifen activation, a skin fibroblast marker, to carry out temporal and tissue specific inactivation of key genes involved in skin fibroblast diversity.

sesame seeds also contain lignans but this says sesame seeds are not like flax because they interfere with tamoxifen.