User profiles for Ramona F. Curpan

Ramona Curpan

Researcher, Coriolan Dragulescu Institute of Chemistry
Verified email at acad-icht.tm.edu.ro
Cited by 1875

A crowdsourcing evaluation of the NIH chemical probes

TI Oprea, CG Bologa, S Boyer, RF Curpan… - Nature chemical …, 2009 - nature.com
Between 2004 and 2008, the US National Institutes of Health Molecular Libraries and
Imaging initiative pilot phase funded 10 high-throughput screening centers, resulting in the …

Structure− function relationships of estrogenic triphenylethylenes related to endoxifen and 4-hydroxytamoxifen

PY Maximov, CB Myers, RF Curpan… - Journal of medicinal …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Estrogens can potentially be classified into planar (class I) or nonplanar (class II) categories,
which might have biological consequences. 1,1,2-Triphenylethylene (TPE) derivatives were …

The molecular, cellular and clinical consequences of targeting the estrogen receptor following estrogen deprivation therapy

P Fan, PY Maximov, RF Curpan, B Abderrahman… - Molecular and cellular …, 2015 - Elsevier
During the past 20 years our understanding of the control of breast tumor development, growth
and survival has changed dramatically. The once long forgotten application of high dose …

Endoxifen, 4-hydroxytamoxifen and an estrogenic derivative modulate estrogen receptor complex mediated apoptosis in breast cancer

…, SW Fanning, S Sengupta, P Fan, RF Curpan… - Molecular …, 2018 - ASPET
Estrogen therapy was used to treat advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women for
decades until the introduction of tamoxifen. Resistance to long-term estrogen deprivation (…

The structure-function relationship of angular estrogens and estrogen receptor alpha to initiate estrogen-induced apoptosis in breast cancer cells

…, A Jain, A Malovannaya, P Fan, RF Curpan… - Molecular …, 2020 - ASPET
High-dose synthetic estrogen therapy was the standard treatment of advanced breast cancer
for three decades until the discovery of tamoxifen. A range of substituted triphenylethylene …

Detection of intracellular granularity induction in prostate cancer cell lines by small molecules using the HyperCyt® high-throughput flow cytometry system

MK Haynes, JJ Strouse, A Waller, A Leitao, RF Curpan… - SLAS Discovery, 2009 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer is a leading cause of death among men due to the limited number of
treatment strategies available for advanced disease. Discovery of effective chemotherapeutics …

Pharmacology and molecular mechanisms of clinically relevant estrogen estetrol and estrogen mimic BMI-135 for the treatment of endocrine-resistant breast cancer

B Abderrahman, PY Maximov, RF Curpan… - Molecular …, 2020 - ASPET
Long-term estrogen deprivation (LTED) with tamoxifen (TAM) or aromatase inhibitors leads
to endocrine-resistance, whereby physiologic levels of estrogen kill breast cancer (BC). …

[HTML][HTML] A unifying biology of sex steroid-induced apoptosis in prostate and breast cancers

…, B Abderrahman, RF Curpan… - Endocrine-related …, 2018 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Prostate and breast cancer are the two cancers with the highest incidence in men and women,
respectively. Here, we focus on the known biology of acquired resistance to antihormone …

Rapid induction of the unfolded protein response and apoptosis by estrogen mimic TTC-352 for the treatment of endocrine-resistant breast cancer

B Abderrahman, PY Maximov, RF Curpan… - Molecular cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Patients with long-term estrogen-deprived breast cancer, after resistance to tamoxifen or
aromatase inhibitors develops, can experience tumor regression when treated with estrogens. …

Pharmacological relevance of endoxifen in a laboratory simulation of breast cancer in postmenopausal patients

…, VR Korostyshevskiy, RF Curpan… - Journal of the …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background Tamoxifen is metabolically activated via a CYP2D6 enzyme system to the more
potent hydroxylated derivatives 4-hydroxytamoxifen and endoxifen. This study addresses …