[We investigated the effects of two different types of less calcemic vitamin D compounds, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 [25(OH)D3] and 19-nor-1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D2 [19-nor-1,25(OH)2D2], and compared their activity to 1alpha,25(OH)2D3 on (a) the proliferation of primary cultures and cell lines of human prostate cancer cells; and (b) the transactivation of the VDRs in the androgen-insensitive PC-3 cancer cell line stably transfected with VDR (PC-3/ VDR).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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