Summary: SRD5A2 is a critical enzyme for prostatic development and growth, and the SRD5A2 inhibitor, finasteride, is used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). SRD5A2 is absent in 30% of normal adult men, which explains the resistance of a subset of patients to this commonly prescribed drug. This project proposes new combination therapies (5-ARI+raloxifene) and evaluates novel non-invasive biomarker...

Summary: Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (RCT) study, to determine the impact of XCHT on irinotecan-induced severe delayed-onset diarrhea (SDOD), and to determine the feasibility of using plasma raloxifene-4'-glucuronide as a probe for intestinal UGT activity.

Summary: Clomiphene citrate is a non-steroidal triphenylethylene derivative distantly related to diethylstilbestrol. It acts as a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), similar to tamoxifen and raloxifene. All three drugs are competitive inhibitors of estrogen binding to estrogen receptors (ERs) and have mixed agonist and antagonist activity, depending upon the target tissue. Letrozole is a potent, ...