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Contraceptive progestins with androgenic properties stimulate breast epithelial cell proliferation

EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2021
Hormonal contraception exposes women to synthetic progesterone receptor (PR) agonists, progestins, and transiently increases breast cancer risk. How progesterone and progestins affect the breast epithelium is poorly understood because we lack adequate ...
Marie Shamseddin, Fabio De Martino, Céline Constantin, Valentina Scabia, Anne‐Sophie Lancelot, Csaba Laszlo, Ayyakkannu Ayyannan, Laura Battista, Wassim Raffoul, Marie‐Christine Gailloud‐Matthieu, Philipp Bucher, Maryse Fiche, Giovanna Ambrosini, George Sflomos, Cathrin Brisken   +14 more
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Progestins as Anticancer Drugs and Chemosensitizers, New Targets and Applications

Pharmaceutics, 2021
Progesterone and its synthetic analogues, progestins, participate in the regulation of cell differentiation, proliferation and cell cycle progression.
Tatiana A. Fedotcheva, Nadezhda I. Fedotcheva, Nikolai L. Shimanovsky   +2 more
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Fecal Progestin Extraction and Analysis for Non-invasive Monitoring of Ovarian Cycle in Beef Cows [PDF]

Pakistan Veterinary Journal, 2012
The aims of the present study were to determine presence of immunoreactive progestins in feces, correlate fecal progestins with plasma progesterone (P4) concentrations and subsequently assess the role of fecal progestins in monitoring estrous cycle in ...
N. Yimer§, Y. Rosnina*, H. Wahid, M.M. Bukar, A. Malik, K.C. Yap, M. Fahmi, P. Ganesamurthi and A.A. Saharee
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Hormonal Treatment of Endometriosis: A Narrative Review [PDF]

Pharmaceuticals
Background: Endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological diseases, affecting up to 10–15% of women of reproductive age. It is a chronic, estrogen-dependent condition that often presents with heterogeneous symptoms, complicating diagnosis and ...
Elvin Piriyev, Sven Schiermeier, Thomas Römer   +2 more
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The endogenous hydrogen gas (H2) drives women’s health: a comment on “Gut bacteria convert glucocorticoids into progestins in the presence of hydrogen gas” [PDF]

Frontiers in Endocrinology
Shuangling Yang, Jiongshan Zhang, Luyao Xu, Yajie Guan, Chun Fang, Shuhui Zheng, Hongzhi Yang, Haimei Liu, Haimei Liu, Yaxing Zhang, Yaxing Zhang   +10 more
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Development of a Magnetic Molecularly Imprinted Microsphere-Based Signal Amplified Semi-Homogeneous Method for Multidetection of Five Progestins in Milk

Foods, 2023
The residues of progestins in milk are significant risk factors for teenage acne and may cause hormone-dependent cancers in consumers, so the determination of these residues in milk is very important.
Yan Su, Gelin Liu, Haozhe Hou, Yaojia Peng, Jianping Wang   +4 more
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Upregulation of an estrogen receptor-regulated gene by first generation progestins requires both the progesterone receptor and estrogen receptor alpha

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022
Progestins, synthetic compounds designed to mimic the activity of natural progesterone (P4), are used globally in menopausal hormone therapy. Although the older progestins medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) and norethisterone (NET) have been implicated in
Meghan S. Perkins, Renate Louw-du Toit, Hayley Jackson, Mishkah Simons, Donita Africander   +4 more
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Fourth-Generation Progestins Inhibit 3β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 2 and Modulate the Biosynthesis of Endogenous Steroids. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Progestins used in contraception and hormone replacement therapy are synthetic compounds designed to mimic the actions of the natural hormone progesterone and are classed into four consecutive generations.
Renate Louw-du Toit, Meghan S Perkins, Jacky L Snoep, Karl-Heinz Storbeck, Donita Africander   +4 more
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Possible Participation of Adenine Nucleotide Translocase ANT1 in the Cytotoxic Action of Progestins, Glucocorticoids, and Diclofenac on Tumor Cells

Pharmaceutics, 2023
A comparative analysis of the cytostatic effects of progestins (gestobutanoyl, megestrol acetate, amol, dienogest, and medroxyprogesterone acetate), glucocorticoids (hydrocortisone, dexamethasone), and diclofenac on tumor cells was carried out in order ...
Darya Ulchenko, Lilia Miloykovich, Olga Zemlyanaya, Nikolay Shimanovsky, Tatiana Fedotcheva   +4 more
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Therapeutic options of endometrial hyperplasia management. Current recommendations and prospective directions of treatment

Репродуктивная эндокринология, 2021
Endometrial hyperplasia (EH) is a pathological condition characterized by proliferation of the endometrial glands with an increase in the glands/stroma ratio compared to normal proliferative endometrium. EH is a precursor to the development of one of the
T.F. Tatarchuk, T.I. Kvasha, N.F. Zakharenko, N.V. Kosei, V.S. Solskyy, I.V. Shmulian   +5 more
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