Steroid Androgen Exposure during Development Has No Effect on Reproductive Physiology of Biomphalaria glabrata

Funding: The research presented in this manuscript was wholly funded by National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/. ‘The Snail Assay as an Alternative to the Rodent Hershberger Assay for Detecting Androgens and Anti-androgens’ funding reference: G0900802/1 to SJ, EJR, CSJ, and LRN. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

A Sting in the Tail : The N-Terminal Domain of the Androgen Receptor as a Drug Target

AEM was supported by a BBSRC-CASE studentship award. Research in the IJM laboratory is currently supported by the Chief Scientist's Office of the Scottish Government and the charity Friends of Anchor.

Sertoli Cell Androgen Receptor Signalling in Adulthood is Essential for Post-Meiotic Germ Cell Development.

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Sertoli Cell Androgen Receptor Signalling in Adulthood is Essential for Post-Meiotic Germ Cell Development.

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Targeting androgen receptor activation function-1 with EPI to overcome resistance mechanisms in castration-resistant prostate cancer

Financial support: This research was supported by grants to MDS from the NCI (2R01CA105304), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP79308) and the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Prostate Cancer Research Program (E81XWH-11-1-0551). Research by IJM’s group was supported by the Chief Scientist’s Office of the Scottish Government (ETM-258 and -382). We are grateful to Country Meadows Senior Men’s Golf Charity Classic for financial support of this research.

EPI-001, a compound active against castration-resistant prostate cancer, targets transactivation unit 5 of the androgen receptor

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank J. M. Valverde (IRB) as well as the NMR facilities of the University of Barcelona (CCiT UB) and the Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano (IQFR, CSIC) for their assistance in, respectively, protein production and NMR. This work was supported by IRB, ICREA (X.S.), Obra Social “la Caixa” (Fellowship to E.D.M. and CancerTec grants to X.S.) MICINN (CTQ2009-08850 to X.S.), MINECO (BIO2012-31043 to X.S.; CTQ2014-56361-P to A.R), Marató de TV3 (102030 to X.S. and 102031 to E.E.P) the COFUND programme of the European Commission (C.T.W.P., A. R. and X.S.), the European Research Council (CONCERT, contract number 648201, to X.S.), the Ramón y Cajal program of MICINN (RYC-2011-07873 to C.W.B.) the Serra Hunter Programme (E.E.P.) and AGAUR (SGR-2014-56RR14 to E.E.P). IRB Barcelona is the recipient of a Severo Ochoa Award of Excellence from MINECO (Government of Spain)