Medical Therapies: Aromatase Inhibitors

S E Bulun, K Zeitoun, K Takayama, L Noble, D Michael, E Simpson, A Johns, M Putman, H Sasano, Estrogen production in endometriosis and use of aromatase inhibitors to treat endometriosis. Endocrine-related Cancer. ,vol. 6, pp. 293- 301 ,(1999) , 10.1677/ERC.0.0060293

Mohamed F.M Mitwally, Robert F Casper, Use of an aromatase inhibitor for induction of ovulation in patients with an inadequate response to clomiphene citrate. Fertility and Sterility. ,vol. 75, pp. 305- 309 ,(2001) , 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)01705-2

Stephen R. D. Johnston, Alison Jones, Ian E. Smith, Stephen Jacobs, Patrick Trunet, Mitchell Dowsett, In vivo measurement of aromatase inhibition by letrozole (CGS 20267) in postmenopausal patients with breast cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. ,vol. 1, pp. 1511- 1515 ,(1995)

Khaled Zeitoun, Kazuto Takayama, M. Dod Michael, Serdar E. Bulun, Stimulation of Aromatase P450 Promoter (II) Activity in Endometriosis and Its Inhibition in Endometrium Are Regulated by Competitive Binding of Steroidogenic Factor-1 and Chicken Ovalbumin Upstream Promoter Transcription Factor to the Same cis-Acting Element Molecular Endocrinology. ,vol. 13, pp. 239- 253 ,(1999) , 10.1210/MEND.13.2.0229

Khaled M Zeitoun, Serdar E Bulun, Aromatase: a key molecule in the pathophysiology of endometriosis and a therapeutic target Fertility and Sterility. ,vol. 72, pp. 961- 969 ,(1999) , 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00393-3

Shaw-Jenq Tsai, Meng-Hsing Wu, Chen-Chung Lin, H. Sunny Sun, Hsiu-Mei Chen, Regulation of Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein Expression and Progesterone Production in Endometriotic Stromal Cells The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. ,vol. 86, pp. 5765- 5773 ,(2001) , 10.1210/JCEM.86.12.8082

M Gershanovich, HA Chaudri, D Campos, H Lurie, A Bonaventura, M Jeffrey, F Buzzi, I Bodrogi, H Ludwig, P Reichardt, N O’Higgins, G Romieu, P Friederich, M Lassus, Letrozole International Trial Group, Letrozole, a new oral aromatase inhibitor: Randomised trial comparing 2.5 mg daily, 0.5 mg daily and aminoglutethimide in postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer Annals of Oncology. ,vol. 9, pp. 639- 645 ,(1998) , 10.1023/A:1008226721932

DAN C. MARTIN, FRANK W. LING, Endometriosis and pain. Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology. ,vol. 42, pp. 664- 686 ,(1999) , 10.1097/00003081-199909000-00019

Paolo Vercellini, Laura Trespidi, Olga De Giorgi, Ilenia Cortesi, Fabio Parazzini, Pier Giorgio Crosignani, Endometriosis and pelvic pain: relation to disease stage and localization Fertility and Sterility. ,vol. 65, pp. 299- 304 ,(1996) , 10.1016/S0015-0282(16)58089-3

G. N. Hortobagyi, Aman U Buzdar, P. V. Plourde, Aromatase inhibitors in metastatic breast cancer. Seminars in Oncology. ,vol. 23, pp. 28- 32 ,(1996)