Androgen receptor

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Androgen receptor
Immunostain in short
Normal staining pattern nuclear
Positive salivary duct carcinoma, Brenner tumour, apocrine carcinoma of the breast, prostate carcinoma (most cases)

Androgen receptor, abbreviated AR, is receptor activated by androgens (testosterone, dihydrotestosterone).

Tumours with AR

See also

References

  1. Fan, CY.; Wang, J.; Barnes, EL. (Apr 2000). "Expression of androgen receptor and prostatic specific markers in salivary duct carcinoma: an immunohistochemical analysis of 13 cases and review of the literature.". Am J Surg Pathol 24 (4): 579-86. PMID 10757407.
  2. Kuhn, E.; Ayhan, A.; Shih, IeM.; Seidman, JD.; Kurman, RJ. (Dec 2013). "Ovarian Brenner tumour: a morphologic and immunohistochemical analysis suggesting an origin from fallopian tube epithelium.". Eur J Cancer 49 (18): 3839-49. doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2013.08.011. PMID 24012099.
  3. Honma, N.; Takubo, K.; Akiyama, F.; Sawabe, M.; Arai, T.; Younes, M.; Kasumi, F.; Sakamoto, G. (Aug 2005). "Expression of GCDFP-15 and AR decreases in larger or node-positive apocrine carcinomas of the breast.". Histopathology 47 (2): 195-201. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2559.2005.02181.x. PMID 16045781.
  4. Prendeville, S.; Al-Bozom, I.; Compérat, E.; Sweet, J.; Evans, AJ.; Ben-Gashir, M.; Mete, O.; van der Kwast, TH. et al. (Dec 2017). "Prostate carcinoma with amphicrine features: further refining the spectrum of neuroendocrine differentiation in tumours of primary prostatic origin?". Histopathology 71 (6): 926-933. doi:10.1111/his.13330. PMID 28756619.