 Prostate-Specific Antigen
"Prostate-Specific Antigen" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A glycoprotein that is a kallikrein-like serine proteinase and an esterase, produced by epithelial cells of both normal and malignant prostate tissue. It is an important marker for the diagnosis of prostate cancer.
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D017430
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.300.760.442.750 D08.811.277.656.959.350.442.750 D12.776.866.249.500 D23.050.285.625 D23.101.140.625
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| Concept/Terms |
Prostate-Specific Antigen- Prostate-Specific Antigen
- gamma-Seminoprotein
- gamma Seminoprotein
- Prostate Specific Antigen
- hK3 Kallikrein
- Kallikrein, hK3
- Semenogelase
- Kallikrein hK3
- Seminin
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Prostate-Specific Antigen" by people in Profiles.
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Abrahamyan L, Huszti E, Bremner KE, Pechlivanoglou P, Mitsakakis N, Krahn M. New Insights into the Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer in Ontario. Cancer Invest. 2019; 37(10):513-523.
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Deniffel D, Zhang Y, Salinas E, Satkunasivam R, Khalvati F, Haider MA. Reducing Unnecessary Prostate Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Using Clinical Parameters to Predict Negative and Indeterminate Findings. J Urol. 2020 02; 203(2):292-298.
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Vitiello GA, Sayed BA, Wardenburg M, Perez SD, Keith CG, Canter DJ, Ogan K, Pearson TC, Turgeon N. Utility of Prostate Cancer Screening in Kidney Transplant Candidates. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 07; 27(7):2157-63.
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Beheshti M, Vali R, Langsteger W. [18F]fluorocholine PET/CT in the assessment of bone metastases in prostate cancer. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2007 Aug; 34(8):1316-7; author reply 1318-9.
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Farhat WA, Habbal AA, Khauli RB. A guideline to clinical utility of prostate specific antigen. Saudi Med J. 2000 Mar; 21(3):223-7.
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Yousef GM, Luo LY, Scherer SW, Sotiropoulou G, Diamandis EP. Molecular characterization of zyme/protease M/neurosin (PRSS9), a hormonally regulated kallikrein-like serine protease. Genomics. 1999 Dec 01; 62(2):251-9.
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Luo L, Herbrick JA, Scherer SW, Beatty B, Squire J, Diamandis EP. Structural characterization and mapping of the normal epithelial cell-specific 1 gene. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1998 Jun 29; 247(3):580-6.
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