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Progestogen (medication)
Related publications (32)
Androgen Receptor Signaling in in vivo models of Estrogen Receptor-positive Breast Cancer and Normal Breast Epithelium
Steroid hormone receptors (HRs) are ligand-activated transcription factors that play a pivotal role in breast development and carcinogenesis. It is well established that estrogen receptor (ER) signaling is a major proliferative driver in estrogen receptor ...
EPFL2024Predicting type 2 diabetes risk before and after solid organ transplantation using polygenic scores in a Danish cohort
Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) can be multifactorial where both genetics and environmental factors play a role. We aimed to investigate the use of polygenic risk scores (PRS) in the prediction of pre-transplant T2DM and post-transplant diabetes mellitus ( ...
Lausanne2023Role of the androgen receptor in the human breast epithelium
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide and understanding the risk factors affecting it is key for prevention. The relative risk of developing breast cancer is related to exposure to both endogenous hormones and exogenous natural and ...
EPFL2022Socioeconomic development predicts a weaker contraceptive effect of breastfeeding
The contraceptive effect of breastfeeding remains essential to controlling fertility in many developing regions of the world. The extent to which this negative effect of breastfeeding on ovarian activity is sensitive to ecological conditions, notably mater ...
NATL ACAD SCIENCES2021Epigenetic remodelling of enhancers in response to estrogen deprivation and re-stimulation
Estrogen hormones are implicated in a majority of breast cancers and estrogen receptor alpha (ER), the main nuclear factor mediating estrogen signaling, orchestrates a complex molecular circuitry that is not yet fully elucidated. Here, we investigated geno ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021The secreted protease Adamts18 links hormone action to activation of the mammary stem cell niche
Cathrin Brisken, Giovanna Ambrosini, Marian Caikovski, Philipp Bucher, Renuga Devi Rajaram, Patrik Aouad, Dalya Ataca, Marie Shamseddin, Céline Berthe Constantin, Csaba Ferenc László
Estrogens and progesterone control breast development and carcinogenesis via their cognate receptors expressed in a subset of luminal cells in the mammary epithelium. How they control the extracellular matrix, important to breast physiology and tumorigenes ...
2020C/EBP alpha mediates the growth inhibitory effect of progestins on breast cancer cells
Cathrin Brisken, Valentina Scabia
Steroid hormones are key gene regulators in breast cancer cells. While estrogens stimulate cell proliferation, progestins activate a single cell cycle followed by proliferation arrest. Here, we use biochemical and genome-wide approaches to show that proges ...
WILEY2019A high resolution LC-MS targeted method for the concomitant analysis of 11 contraceptive progestins and 4 steroids
Cathrin Brisken, Jonathan Paz Montoya, Marc Moniatte, Fabio De Martino, Marie Shamseddin, Csaba Ferenc László, Alexandre Béguin
In the context of hormonal contraception and hormone replacement therapy (HRT), many women are exposed to exogenous hormones. Current use of hormonal contraception with combined ethinyl estradiol and different progestins bestows a breast cancer relative ri ...
2019Progestins used for hormonal contraception in Switzerland: study of their effects on the breast epithelium
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the most common cause of cancer death among women. Hormones have been shown to have a key role in breast development and carcinogenesis. Repeated activation of progesterone receptor (PR) signaling as ...
EPFL2018Risk prediction of developing venous thrombosis in combined oral contraceptive users
Emmanuelle Logette, Valérie Buchillier
Background Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a complex multifactorial disease influenced by genetic and environmental risk factors. An example for the latter is the regular use of combined oral contraceptives (CC), which increases the risk to develop VTE by ...
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