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List of works by Norman L Block

A rare case of renal gastrinoma.

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

A renal protocol for all ages and all indications: mercapto-acetyl-triglycine (MAG3) with simultaneous injection of furosemide (MAG3-F0): a 17-year experience

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Acceleration of wound healing by growth hormone-releasing hormone and its agonists

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Activation of growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) receptor stimulates cardiac reverse remodeling after myocardial infarction (MI)

scientific article published on 27 December 2011

Activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases by a splice variant of GHRH receptor

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Agonist of growth hormone-releasing hormone as a potential effector for survival and proliferation of pancreatic islets

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Agonist of growth hormone-releasing hormone reduces pneumolysin-induced pulmonary permeability edema

scientific article published on 23 January 2012

Agonistic analogs of growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) promote wound healing by stimulating the proliferation and survival of human dermal fibroblasts through ERK and AKT pathways

scientific article published on 2 August 2016

Agonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone stimulate self-renewal of cardiac stem cells and promote their survival

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Agonists of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone in prostate cancer

scientific article published on 28 August 2013

An update on the use of degarelix in the treatment of advanced hormone-dependent prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 16 April 2013

Antagonist of GH-releasing hormone receptors alleviates experimental ocular inflammation

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Antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) reduce prostate size in experimental benign prostatic hyperplasia

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Antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone inhibit growth of androgen-independent prostate cancer through inactivation of ERK and Akt kinases

scientific article published on 18 January 2012

Antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone inhibit the proliferation of human benign prostatic hyperplasia cells

scientific article published on July 2010

Antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor induce apoptosis specifically in retinoblastoma cells.

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Antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone suppress in vivo tumor growth and gene expression in triple negative breast cancers

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Beneficial effects of growth hormone-releasing hormone agonists on rat INS-1 cells and on streptozotocin-induced NOD/SCID mice

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Beneficial effects of novel antagonists of GHRH in different models of Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on November 1, 2012

Blocking CD40-TRAF6 signaling is a therapeutic target in obesity-associated insulin resistance

scientific article published on 03 February 2014

Cardioprotective effects of growth hormone-releasing hormone agonist after myocardial infarction

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Civilian gunshot injuries of the penis: the Miami experience

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Combination of gastrin-releasing peptide antagonist with cytotoxic agents produces synergistic inhibition of growth of human experimental colon cancers

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Combining growth hormone-releasing hormone antagonist with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone antagonist greatly augments benign prostatic hyperplasia shrinkage

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Discovery of LHRH and development of LHRH analogs for prostate cancer treatment

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Effects of an Antagonistic Analog of Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone on Endometriosis in a Mouse Model and In Vitro

scientific article published in January 2017

Expression of GHRH-R, a Potentially Targetable Biomarker, in Triple-negative Breast Cancer

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Expression of Receptors for Pituitary-Type Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone (pGHRH-R) in Human Papillary Thyroid Cancer Cells: Effects of GHRH Antagonists on Matrix Metalloproteinase-2.

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Expression of hypothalamic neurohormones and their receptors in the human eye

scientific article published on 3 June 2017

Expression of mRNA for human type-I LHRH receptor transcript forms in human benign prostatic hyperplasia.

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GHRH Receptor Expression in Malignant Mixed Müllerian Tumors: A Potentially Targetable Biopredictor

scientific article published on 3 November 2015

GHRH and wound healing

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GHRH antagonist when combined with cytotoxic agents induces S-phase arrest and additive growth inhibition of human colon cancer

scientific article published on October 24, 2012

Gastrin-releasing peptide receptor antagonism induces protection from lethal sepsis: involvement of toll-like receptor 4 signaling.

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Genitourinary sarcoidosis: An essential review for the practicing clinician

scientific article published on January 2017

Grade-dependent Response to Finasteride in Early Prostate Cancer

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Growth hormone-releasing hormone agonists reduce myocardial infarct scar in swine with subacute ischemic cardiomyopathy

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Growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor antagonists inhibit human gastric cancer through downregulation of PAK1-STAT3/NF-κB signaling

scientific article published on 07 December 2016

Growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor splice variant 1 is frequently expressed in oral squamous cell carcinomas

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Her2 expression in prostatic cancer: a comparison with mammary carcinoma

scientific article published in October 2002

Hormonal manipulation of benign prostatic hyperplasia

scientific article published on January 2013

Hypothalamo-pituitary and immune-dependent adrenal regulation during systemic inflammation

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Improvement of islet function in a bioartificial pancreas by enhanced oxygen supply and growth hormone releasing hormone agonist

scientific article published on 5 March 2012

In vivo fluorescence imaging and urinary monoamines as surrogate biomarkers of disease progression in a mouse model of pheochromocytoma

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Inhibition of U-87 MG glioblastoma by AN-152 (AEZS-108), a targeted cytotoxic analog of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

Inhibition of cell proliferation, invasion, tumor growth and metastasis by an oral non-antimicrobial tetracycline analog (COL-3) in a metastatic prostate cancer model

scientific article published in March 2002

Inhibitory effects of GHRH antagonists on human GH-secreting adenoma tissue

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LHRH antagonist Cetrorelix reduces prostate size and gene expression of proinflammatory cytokines and growth factors in a rat model of benign prostatic hyperplasia

scientific article published on 13 October 2010

LHRH receptor expression in sarcomas of bone and soft tissue

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Mechanisms of inhibition of human benign prostatic hyperplasia in vitro by the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone antagonist cetrorelix

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Mechanisms of synergism between antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone and antagonists of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone in shrinking experimental benign prostatic hyperplasia

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Methodology for preservation of high molecular-weight RNA in paraffin-embedded tissue: application for laser-capture microdissection

scientific article published in September 2005

Mini-review: novel therapeutic strategies to blunt actions of pneumolysin in the lungs

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

Modulation of pancreatic islets-stress axis by hypothalamic releasing hormones and 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase

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Modulation of the pancreatic islet-stress axis as a novel potential therapeutic target in diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on January 2014

Multimodal Somatostatin Receptor Theranostics Using [(64)Cu]Cu-/[(177)Lu]Lu-DOTA-(Tyr(3))octreotate and AN-238 in a Mouse Pheochromocytoma Model.

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New therapeutic approach to heart failure due to myocardial infarction based on targeting growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor

scientific article published in April 2015

New therapies for relapsed castration-resistant prostate cancer based on peptide analogs of hypothalamic hormones

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Novel GHRH antagonists suppress the growth of human malignant melanoma by restoring nuclear p27 function.

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Novel antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone inhibit growth and vascularization of human experimental ovarian cancers

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Potentiating effects of GHRH analogs on the response to chemotherapy

scientific article published on January 2015

Potentiation of cytotoxic chemotherapy by growth hormone-releasing hormone agonists

scientific article published on 30 December 2013

Powerful inhibition of experimental human pancreatic cancers by receptor targeted cytotoxic LH-RH analog AEZS-108.

scientific article published on May 2013

Powerful inhibition of in-vivo growth of experimental hepatic cancers by bombesin/gastrin-releasing peptide antagonist RC-3940-II.

scientific article published in October 2012

Preclinical efficacy of growth hormone-releasing hormone antagonists for androgen-dependent and castration-resistant human prostate cancer

scientific article published on 06 January 2014

Profound Actions of an Agonist of Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone on Angiogenic Therapy by Mesenchymal Stem Cells

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Protective effect of Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone agonist in bacterial toxin-induced pulmonary barrier dysfunction

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Protective effects of agonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) in early experimental diabetic retinopathy

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Re: editorial comment on LHRH antagonist cetrorelix reduces prostate size and gene expression of proinflammatory cytokines and growth factors in a rat model of benign prostatic hyperplasia (Prostate 2011; 71: 736-747).

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Receptor-targeted therapy of human experimental urinary bladder cancers with cytotoxic LH-RH analog AN-152 (AEZS-108)

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

Receptors for luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) as potential molecular targets for therapy with LHRH antagonist cetrorelix.

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Reply to Liu et al.: Hypothalamic control of islets.

scientific article published on 9 December 2011

Role of growth hormone-releasing hormone in dyslipidemia associated with experimental type 1 diabetes

scientific article published on February 2016

Search for novel therapies for triple negative breast cancers (TNBC): analogs of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) and growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH)

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

Shrinkage of experimental benign prostatic hyperplasia and reduction of prostatic cell volume by a gastrin-releasing peptide antagonist

scientific article published on 28 January 2013

Substantial expression of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) receptor type I in human uveal melanoma

scientific article published on October 2013

Suppression of the proliferation of human U-87 MG glioblastoma cells by new antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone in vivo and in vitro.

scientific article published on February 2013

Synthesis and structure-activity studies on novel analogs of human growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) with enhanced inhibitory activities on tumor growth

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Synthesis of new potent agonistic analogs of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) and evaluation of their endocrine and cardiac activities

scientific article published on 25 December 2013

Taking a closer look at the rectal examination: beyond the basics

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Targeted cytotoxic analog of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH), AEZS-108 (AN-152), inhibits the growth of DU-145 human castration-resistant prostate cancer in vivo and in vitro through elevating p21 and ROS levels.

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Targeted therapy in advanced metastatic colorectal cancer: current concepts and perspectives

scientific article published on May 2014

The potential role of follicle-stimulating hormone in the cardiovascular, metabolic, skeletal, and cognitive effects associated with androgen deprivation therapy

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The use of peptide analogs for the treatment of gastrointestinal, pancreatic, liver and urinary bladder cancers

scientific article published on January 2010

Transplantation of bovine adrenocortical cells encapsulated in alginate

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Transplantation of human islets without immunosuppression

scientific article published on 28 October 2013

Transplantation of pancreatic islets to adrenal gland is promoted by agonists of growth-hormone-releasing hormone

scientific article published on 23 January 2013

Use of analogs of peptide hormones conjugated to cytotoxic radicals for chemotherapy targeted to receptors on tumors.

scientific article published on January 2011