Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) are a class of compounds that act differentially on the estrogen receptor (ER) in various tissues with a mixed agonist/antagonistic activity (agonistic in some tissues while antagonist in others). This peculiarity represents a challenge for developing new hormone replacement therapies (HRTs) and highlights the need of new tools to evaluate the specific effects of a given SERM in different organs/tissues of an entire organism and with time. Reporter mice represent invaluable tools in pharmacology to analyze specific signaling in physiological conditions and monitor the effects of drugs acting on these signals in a spatio-temporal dimension. Here, we describe an in vivo protocol to examine the effects of different SERMs on estrogen receptor activity by using the ERE-Luc reporter model, a mouse that reports ER transcriptional activity.
Selective estrogen receptor modulators and the tissue-selective estrogen complex: analysis of cell type-specific effects using in vivo imaging of a reporter mouse model / S. Della Torre, P. Ciana (METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY). - In: Estrogen receptors : methods and protocols / [a cura di] K.M. Eyster. - Prima edizione. - [s.l] : Humana Press Inc., 2016. - ISBN 9781493931262. - pp. 297-313
Selective estrogen receptor modulators and the tissue-selective estrogen complex: analysis of cell type-specific effects using in vivo imaging of a reporter mouse model
S. Della TorrePrimo
;P. CianaUltimo
2016
Abstract
Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) are a class of compounds that act differentially on the estrogen receptor (ER) in various tissues with a mixed agonist/antagonistic activity (agonistic in some tissues while antagonist in others). This peculiarity represents a challenge for developing new hormone replacement therapies (HRTs) and highlights the need of new tools to evaluate the specific effects of a given SERM in different organs/tissues of an entire organism and with time. Reporter mice represent invaluable tools in pharmacology to analyze specific signaling in physiological conditions and monitor the effects of drugs acting on these signals in a spatio-temporal dimension. Here, we describe an in vivo protocol to examine the effects of different SERMs on estrogen receptor activity by using the ERE-Luc reporter model, a mouse that reports ER transcriptional activity.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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