Advances in Rapid Sex-Steroid Action

Non genomic action of steroid hormones: more questions than answers.- Part I: Breast Cancer.- Progesterone signaling to chromatin in breast cancer cells. two initial cycles of remodeling.- Cooperative interactions between c-Src, estrogen receptors, and receptor tyrosine kinases in breast cancer.- Cross talk between ERa and Src signaling and its relevance to ER status and hormone responsiveness.- Post-translational modifications of ER alpha in rapid estrogens’ action.- Sex-steroid rapid action and its role in invasiveness and metastasis of breast cancer.- Unraveling the role of GPER in breast cancer.- Nongenomic actions of estrogens and xenoestrogens affecting  endocrine cancer cells.- Part II: Prostate Cancer.- Androgen receptor pathway in prostate cancer: old target and new drugs.- Differential functions of stromal and epithelial androgen receptor in prostate cancer before and after castration resistant stage.- Role of androgens and androgen receptor in prostate cancer: genomic and non-genomic actions.- Mechanisms of signal transduction in prostate cancer: the role of PI3-kinase pathway in androgen action.- The IGF-1 axis in prostate cancer: the role of rapid steroid actions.- Part III: New tools for steroid receptor analysis and regulatory networks.- Quantitative visualization of sex steroid receptor functions: AR and ERa.- Micropatterned surfaces as tools for the study of rapid non-genomic actions of steroid receptors. Index.